Birth Control & Planned Parenthood: The Pros & Cons
According to researchers, “Planned parenthood is one of the nation 's leading providers of high quality of affordable health care for women, men, and young people, and the nation’s largest provider of sex education and birth control.” (Planned parenthood) Birth control and planned parenthood is commonly controversial because people think that birth control and planned parenthood helpful, and it prevents young teens and others from becoming pregnant. Also planned parenthood helps people who are planning to have kids plan for the future of the child and educates people on how to take care of the baby. Others disagree because they think that young teens should not be sexually active nor thinking about wanting to have kids. Without planned parenthood and birth control, young teens would not be able to learn about different sexually transmitted infections (STIs) , and other ways to be safe while having sexs and other ways from preventing pregnancies.
Birth control and planned parenthood can be helpful for teens who are sexually active because teens who are sexually active needs to be educated on how not to only prevent pregnancies but also to prevent
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The cons about birth control and planned parenthood is that birth control can cause lots of problems when a woman decides to have kids. For example it can cause a miscarriages, and other body effects it can have is not only physically, but mentally and emotionally. The emotional problems birth control can cause is hormones, depression, mood swings, anxieties, fatigue, neurotic symptoms, compulsion, and anger. Other ways birth control can affect the body is physically is weight gain ,irregular bleeding, high blood pressure, larger breasts, breast tenderness, and