Pros And Cons Of Birth Control

Although there is a huge controversial issue on birth control, it has many positive benefits. The use of birth control should be encouraged because it helps control menstruation, can lower and help with acne, and can help prevent or reduce endometrial and ovarian cancers. In most people’s opinion birth control is considered “unnatural”. Most think that girls shouldn’t use birth control because it has to many side effects. Birth control does have its negatives, but it also has many pluses to it. Birth control can help to control menstruation cycles. If a women has an irregular menstrual cycle most doctors recommend them to try birth control to help it become more regular, the average cycle is twenty-eight days, but anywhere between twenty-four and thirty-one days is considered normal. …show more content…
During the placebo week the break from synthetic hormones triggers bleeding that mimics a period. The reason that doctors prescribe birth control to help with irregular menstrual cycles is because the cause might be due to lack of hormones, and the birth control pill has two hormones in it, estrogen and progestogen. Birth control can also help make your menstrual cycle shorter. Most menstrual cycles can last anywhere from three days to a week. With the hormones found in birth control pills menstrual will usually be shorten down a couple days from how long your cycle use to be. Not only will the birth control pill help to regulate your menstrual cycle, shorten your cycle, but it will also reduce the amount of bleeding. These two hormones also help with something