The Benefits Of Birth Control

Every year up sixty-two percent of women in the United States use some form of birth control, according to a 2006-2010 study (Jones). In 1950 a lady in her late eighties, named Margaret Sanger, wrote the research for the first human birth control pill, raising up to fifteen thousand dollars for the research for the project. The first oral contraceptive was approved by the FDA ten years later. In 1972, The Supreme Court legalized the use of birth control for couples who are married in the United States. With the expansion of availability, many more versions of birth control were released (Thompson). Birth control should be available for girls fifteen and older, should be free and with it being free it would lessen unplanned pregnancies, and …show more content…
Research has shown that the hormones in the pills and in other forms of birth control can raise the hormones in blood serum of women who use contraceptives. Also, the rate of breast cancer in women raise with the hormones in the body from taking the birth control (Sherburne). Contraceptives help protect from pregnancy and helps women have regular periods and helps with medical reasons. Almost every woman who takes one or more types of birth control is told, any type of birth control that they are taking can cause symptoms just like any medication that anyone can …show more content…
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