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The birth control pill, or “the pill”, is an oral contraceptive prescribed as medication and taken once every day. The birth control pill was made legal in the 1970s and also made available to teenage girls. It was and still is used by numerous amounts of women starting at as early as age 15. This was the holy grail of the century…

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…

transform the practice of medicine throughout history, through reproductive rights, contraception and standards requiring pharmaceutical companies to provide information and side effects of drugs. The Pill has grown to be the leading type of birth control used in the United States. It is “the first, but also the most successful lifestyle drug in history,” (Tone, 320) transforming medical practice by changing cultural perceptions of labor and delivery, where and how childbirth occurred. It…

Abortion is very common. In fact, three out of ten women in the United States will have an abortion by the time that the are 45 years of age. but abortion is nothing new. In fact, abortion first abortion happened in the late ninth century. Since the 1970, nearly one and a half billion unborn children have been lost to abortion worldwide. Recently, numbers range for 30 and 60 million abortions per year. In the Bible, God says that knows a child before he is formed in the wound, says “Jeremiah…

One of the largest forms of self abortion in the 1970s was the use of coat hangers. One story that has been told was about a sixteen year old girl who took home a pregnancy test. After she took the test she interpreted the results as a positive reading, once she assumed she was pregnant, she inserted a…

Reproductive health therefore implies that people are able to have an independent, self-satisfying and safe sex life with desired frequency, pleasure, autonomy and self-designed family size. Birth control, also known as contraception and fertility control, is methods or devices used to prevent pregnancy. Birth control methods have been used since ancient times, but effective and safe methods only became available…

allows for further destruction of wildlife and wilderness areas to be destroyed which has an impact on the ecosystems surrounding the area. With longer life expectancy and continued birth rate increasing,…

The amount of effort from going to school and work can be stressful enough, adding a baby on top of that could impact a woman’s life in a way that may consume her will to work or go to school. Birth control, at least the pill, has not been readily available for single women up until the recent decades. Birth control can reduce the chance of a woman conceiving a child, some methods more effective and intrusive than others. While other forms have been passed just by word of mouth and proven to be…

experiencing such as shortness of breath, urinary incontinence, hemorrhoids and sleeping problems. These symptoms occur from the increase in the size of the uterus, which expands from approximately 2 ounces before pregnancy to 2.5 pounds at the time of birth. Before having children many people weigh the pros and cons of having a baby. When it is planned and welcomed, pregnancy can be so happy and amazing. Having children can deepen love and intimacy between the perspective parents as…

Pro’s about giving birth control to teen girls without a prescription. Evidence indicates that the more available birth control is, the less likely people are to have abortions and unintended pregnancies (Should Birth Control Pills Be Sold Over The Counter). You don’t need a doctor to tell you whether you have one of the two biggest risk factors for the pill: You know whether you are over 35 or smoke (Should Birth Control Pills Be Sold Over The Counter). I’m pretty sure that if the pill were…