Birth Control Argumentative Essay

The idea of birth control is something that has brought turmoil to the surface and caused many to argue the use of birth control. Birth control methods such as the IUD (intrauterine device), the pill, and Nexplanon, have widened greatly over the past 5 decades, allowing women to choose the right method for not only their body but their lifestyle. Women have exercised this right to use birth control for many years. In the 1850’s, a time when condoms were the only option for birth control and religious beliefs were followed very strictly, both men and women were still given the choice to use birth control without government interference. However, since birth control options have widened over the past 150 years so have the prices and the way of

By giving women the right to choose their birth control or absence of it, has allowed them to exercise their right to freedom of choice as well as freedom of religion. Meaning that if a woman chose to use birth control, but still practices within the Christian religion, she has the right to use or not to use birth control. On the other hand, religious hospitals, practices, and doctors feel differently about the topic. Private practices and doctors, that follow a religion which refrains from birth control, have spoken up and spread the word that they don’t want to provide birth control services because it disregards their religious beliefs. Because of this uproar, in the most recent years, former, President Obama decided to rewrite the health care reform to allow “free access to birth control for any woman.” In an article published by the New York Times titled, “The Freedom to Choose Birth Control,” it states, “Mr. Obama’s new rule on birth control coverage lets institutions affiliated with a religion, shift the cost of coverage to their insurance companies without it resulting in the rest of the country subsidizing that shift” (N.A.