Pros And Cons Of Plan B One Step Emergency Contraception

“Your birth control plan isn’t always perfect. So there’s Plan B One Step emergency contraception” is the phrase on the Plan B One Step website. Plan B is a single dose emergency contraceptive pill to help prevent an unintended pregnancy after unprotected sex or contraceptive failure. Nine hundred and sixteen OB/GYNs were surveyed and recommended this brand over any other. Although this product is beneficial to some, it causes controversy with others. There are three different types of ads, ethos which are ads that try to convince an audience of the authors’ character. A pathos ad is the emotional appeal which try to persuade an audience through their emotions. A logos advertisement is an appeal to logic trying to convince an audience through …show more content…
This pill can be taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex, to prevent those from becoming pregnant. Plan B One Step helps prevent nearly seven out of eight potential pregnancies. The ad advertising the Plan B pill could give certain people the wrong impression. On the ad it says “The moment was perfect” with two young happy people who appear to be in love. While the ad claims the moment to be perfect, the moment after however, may lead to an unwanted pregnancy and the couple may be frighten about this. The ad shows sexually active people that unprotected sex is okay and to not worry for the Plan B pill will be there for whomever needs it. Also, the ad claims if you take the Plan B pill as intended, you will not become pregnant; however, this is not always the …show more content…
The picture in the ad and the wording to go along is very misleading, it shows a happy couple and says “The moment was perfect”. This advertisement could tell people that it is okay to have unprotected sex and to use Plan B One Step pill as a “safety net,” meaning that they know they are having unprotected sex, and they can get the pill after to be an easy fix. Plan B pill is not one hundred percent guaranteed there has been many cases that this pill has not worked. At the bottom of the ad it says “For the perfectly imperfect” meaning it is okay to mess up, and that this pill is for the people who do not take the right precautions. For these “imperfect people this pill will be their resort, so they think it is okay to have unprotected sex over and over, because the pill works ninety five percent of the time, that is if the woman takes the Plan B pill in less than 24 hours, and eighty nine percent within seventy two