Is birth control really making an impact? In today’s relationships, women are taking birth control no matter how intimate the relationship is just as a precautionary. It has been proven that birth control has helped decrease teen pregnancy rates. If it is helping decrease teen pregnancy, why is it that parents have such a hard time, allowing birth control to be prescribed to their young adults? Parents may think or want to think that they can trust their children and that they are an angel in their eyes and would do no wrong. However, they do not want to receive news that their daughter is expecting or that their teenage son is going to be a father. In my opinion, birth control is a way to help reduce the rising population, especially for
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The drug works by stopping the production of eggs by the woman and halts the ovulation process. There are many forms of contraceptive pills depending on the synthetic hormones that your body can handle. The side effects of the oral pill include: intermenstrual spotting, nausea, breast tenderness, headaches and migraine, weight gain, mood changes, missed periods, decreased libido, vaginal discharge, and changes to eyesight for those using contact lenses. The side effects scare many mothers from allowing their children to be protected. Seeing the side effects of the contraceptive linked to an increased risk of cancer immediately becomes a turnoff for some users with a history of cancer in their family as in my case. Personally, I feel the only way to avoid the side effects is to wait to start a family after marriage and when your financial standings are steady before starting a family of your …show more content…
During the Obama administration who should pay for birth control become another hot debate. The Affordable Care Act mandated birth control to be paid for by most employers. The company Hobby Lobby filed a lawsuit concerning that mandate against the government and forced a revision to the guideline. If you look at statistics according to Opposing Viewpoints Birth Control, “if you are a low-income woman, your rate of unintended pregnancy is five times higher than that of a woman at the upper end of the income spectrum”. As a society we need to continue to support women, especially those of lower income to help provide them with birth control to plan their futures and their
The drug works by stopping the production of eggs by the woman and halts the ovulation process. There are many forms of contraceptive pills depending on the synthetic hormones that your body can handle. The side effects of the oral pill include: intermenstrual spotting, nausea, breast tenderness, headaches and migraine, weight gain, mood changes, missed periods, decreased libido, vaginal discharge, and changes to eyesight for those using contact lenses. The side effects scare many mothers from allowing their children to be protected. Seeing the side effects of the contraceptive linked to an increased risk of cancer immediately becomes a turnoff for some users with a history of cancer in their family as in my case. Personally, I feel the only way to avoid the side effects is to wait to start a family after marriage and when your financial standings are steady before starting a family of your …show more content…
During the Obama administration who should pay for birth control become another hot debate. The Affordable Care Act mandated birth control to be paid for by most employers. The company Hobby Lobby filed a lawsuit concerning that mandate against the government and forced a revision to the guideline. If you look at statistics according to Opposing Viewpoints Birth Control, “if you are a low-income woman, your rate of unintended pregnancy is five times higher than that of a woman at the upper end of the income spectrum”. As a society we need to continue to support women, especially those of lower income to help provide them with birth control to plan their futures and their