Persuasive Essay On Male Birth Control

Pregnancy is a beautiful thing for many individuals. For some it is a dreadful accident that was never intended to happen. In many instances pregnancy can be avoided by taking the necessary precautions to prevent the birth of a child. Although these individuals like to believe that birth control will one hundred percent prevent you from getting pregnant, but this is certainly not the case. The one true form of contraception from pregnancy is abstinence, but today abstinence is being seen less in individuals in their teen years to the time they begin to settle down. This begins the hot debate of who should be using birth control, male or female. Male birth control has been a wide controversy for many who worry that males will become impotent with extended use of birth control. Many of the so-called facts about male birth control have been tested and proven wrong. The idea of long term negative affects on the male reproductive system has been tested and proven wrong, and amongst this it has actually shown to be more successful than the birth control woman have been taking since the 1950s. In todays society much of the burden is placed on the woman to prevent pregnancy. There are varieties of …show more content…
For fifty years birth control has been around for woman to decrease the chances of becoming pregnant, but what about for men? For the last ten years researchers have been trying to come up with new ways of contraception for males other than condoms, abstinence, and a vasectomy. Of those one of them is one hundred percent guaranteed no pregnancy (abstinence). A vasectomy is not always one hundred percent against protecting if something happens to go wrong with the procedure, and lastly condoms. Condoms are made of latex and have to withstand a high amount of friction. With this comes many ways for the condom to break and allow for sperm to break