American Birth Control League

family planning as we know it today was restricted, controlled, and in some instances, unlawful. There was little to no education regarding the details of fertilization, because the cycle of ovulation was not defined until 1928 (Center for Disease Control, 1988). Additionally, all forms of contraceptives and any education regarding contraceptives were against the law (Jensen, 1981). These restrictions caused sexually active women to become pregnant often, while medicine was not advanced enough…

less likely to have ever been forced to have sex (1% vs 10%)( Lau, M., Lin, H., & Flores, G. (2014). The most effective and supported programs should be expanded financially. This will allow our teens to have the support, and the responsibility to control their self. The program that I have mentioned will not only distracted these teens, they will be too busy doing the work that is giving ,they will not have the time to think about boys or girls or…

Introduction Sex education is something that is part of one’s life through their entire life. People’s bodies grow and change every day, and learning about the processes that take place is essential to maintaining good health throughout one’s life. Sadly, many people all over the world today are misinformed when it comes to sex education because of the lack of resources, overly vague information, politics, or the fact that sex education isn’t something that is approached in an accurate manner…

reduce the overpopulation and the HIV epidemic. Another cultural challenge would be early age marriages, one of the leading causes of teenage pregnancy as well as death. Due to many children already being “malnourished” girls cannot afford to give birth, it would cause too much stress on their bodies and result in death. As mentioned before giving women a proper education can help decide their own informed decisions and being able to prepare themselves when put in such…

Abortion should be a part of a country’s contraception policy. People should plan their families and society must allow women to end unwanted pregnancies in order to deal with failures of birth control, cases of rape and cases of incest. Abortion should be legalized but discouraged. Legal, because it is a choice; discouraged because there are other more effective ways to prevent pregnancy than abortion. Abortion is all about allowing a woman to make her own decisions, in relation to her…

the most profoundly upsetting testimonies come from women who have had abortions without fully understanding the procedure (Chittom and Newton 3). Adoption is a viable alternative to abortion and accomplishes the same result. And with 1.5 million American families wanting to adopt a child, there is no such thing as an unwanted child (About.com news and issues…

Is Sexual Education Important? Since the beginning of public education, sexual education courses have been a controversial topic. With the hope to avoid offending parents, guardians, teachers, students, or religious beliefs, it has been shoved under the rug and expected to be taught in the home. With this approach, what happens to those children with parents who don’t believe in educating their kids about sexual activity? When they experience adolescence or even adulthood, they are responsible…

As of October 2015, the Guttmacher Institute, a New York-based research organization, found that twenty-two states and the District of Columbia mandate sex education -- and eighteen require that information on contraception be provided (Toppo). With only twenty-two states and the District of Columbia mandating sex education, so many young adults and students are missing out on the proper education they need to make decisions about their sex lives. The United States is failing these young…

connection between the increase of amount of women graduates around 1970 and the rise of marriage age after 1972 and how exactly these events were influenced by the spread of oral contraceptives. The main question of the paper was whether the birth control pill and the legislation that enabled young women to obtain it altered women’s career plans and the age at first marriage. During the research the authors found out that yes, they indeed did, increasing the overall marriage age and devoting…

The first hormonal birth control pill, Enovid, was approved by the Federal Drug Administration in 1690. Hormonal contraceptives work by combining estrogen, the female sexual hormone, and progestin, a derivative of progesterone that prevents ovulation, together to inhibit ovulation and create an inhabitable cervical environment for both sperm and embryos. Therefore, oral contraceptives effectively block the fertility cycle by not allowing sperm to meet an egg or implantation of a fertilized fetus…