Emergency contraception

A GUIDE TO CONTRACEPTION Methods of Contraception Contraception is used to prevent pregnancy. The best way to prevent unintended pregnancy in sexually active women is through consistent and proper use of contraceptives. No contraceptive method works perfectly and all contraceptive methods besides abstinence have risks. Most contraceptives do not protect you from sexually transmitted diseases [STD’s]. • Sterilization Tubal ligation & Vasectomies are a permanent form of contraception.…

Different Methods of Contraception How it works Advantages of Contraception Disadvantages of Contraception How effective is it against Contraception How effective is it protecting you against HIV Natural Family Planning (Rhythm method) A menstrual calendar is used to predict when the woman will be fertile and when she is less at risk of fertilization taking place. It also involves the woman taking her temperature regularly. The women can then work out when she must avoid intercourse and when she…

In modern society, different methods of birth control is being introduced. Contraception is more widely accepted in different countries and in different religions making it more easier for individuals to take care of children. However, there are still countries that cannot establish a social environment to make birth control methods such as male condoms and contraceptive pills work. One method of birth control is the use of male condoms. By putting it on the penis, it acts as a barrier because…

centuries contraception has been available to teenage girls all around the world. As years pass by teenagers find cheaper and easier ways to obtain the pill. Teenage girls may be tricking their own parents into buying or getting them a prescription for birth control. Some teens will try to find any possible way to acquire contraception because they are sexually active. The unsettling truth is young teenage girls are more focused on sexual activities instead of their childhood. Contraception is…

Birth Control: Doing More Bad Than Good for Women and Young Teens Everyone thinks of birth control as a way to have sexual intercourse without any worries or consequences. Those people are wrong. There are so many things that can go wrong even while on the pill, and some women don’t realize that. Part of that problem is that doctors now prescribe it just like they would prescribe medicine for a sick child. Not only are women using these common contraceptives for the wrong reasons, but they…

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…

Consequences of Teens Poor Decisions A person must be accountable for his or her actions. She was only sixteen, with huge dreams- too young to become a mom, she would think. Yet she had relations without protection, and she could see those dreams she had disappearing. Really scared, she went to the basement of her school, “Abraham Lincoln High School’’ in Brooklyn, where the nurses office was at. First the nurse checked her pressure and weight. Then she send the information to a doctor to make…

The pill was not convenient enough. From an implant in your arm to a copper insertion into your uterus. Now there are contraceptive methods that you only need to take or replace once a week, month, year, or even twelve years. This includes, the Emergency Contraceptive, or Plan B, that you can take up to three days after having unprotected intercourse. Each of these contraceptive methods contain either or both synthetic versions of the female hormones, progesterone and estrogen. Both progesterone…

of the low use of the IUDs are women using social media as a source of information causing confusion among women. Studies has done research that provided evidence that social media and social communications influence women on what they want for contraception (Anderson, Steinauer, Valente, Koblentz, and Dehlendorf, 2014). Women also have a low knowledge of the IUDs due to the lack of information. Based on a survey statistic, 87% of unmarried women who are 18 to 29-year-olds had heard about the…

Today, there are many arguments about whether or not our sex education system should be revamped, not to mention which topics should and shouldn 't be covered in our schools. The idea that abstinence-only sex education is, of course, commonly refuted—after all, it was only recently that a Texas school district, whose curriculum was solely abstinence-only with no coverage on contraceptives, had a chlamydia outbreak. The Guttmacher institute also states that 99% of women ages 15 to 44 have used at…