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Positive And Negative World Views

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Our world is an ever changing place where humanity faces both challenges and triumphs. It’s interesting to note that one of humanity’s biggest challenges and triumphs is itself. The ability to adapt and grow comes with conflicting views and even pain. This paper will compare the positive and negative world views on birth control. The negative world views include: health issues, accessibility and effectiveness. The positive world views include: overpopulation and economic downturn. We will start by examining the negative world views on birth control. The World Health Organization (WHO) released reports that using birth control namely the pill and types of estrogen replacement therapy increases a women's risk of developing breast cancer (Nadal, 2012). These reports were based on the combinations of agents that are used in order to make oral contraceptives effect (Nadal, 2012). It can also be surmised that women with a family history of breast cancer would be more susceptible to it while on this type of birth control. Birth control comes in various types and methods which will be …show more content…

The concept of overpopulation is not new but in recent years it has become more of a concerning, especially coupled with the economic down turn. There are approximately seven billion people that live on the planet. This situation in the past has only been seen as the birthrates but we must also look at the numbers of individuals that are living longer. Taking this point of view contraception is only one part of the equation. “The average life expectancy is 61, up from 40 in just 50 years. The numbers of people 65 and older make up 10-15% of the world population today and is expected to increase to 20-30% by 2050 (Overpopulation.org, 2012).” We have no control over the number of people that live longer but we can reduce the number of new babies

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