The Pros And Cons Of Birth Control

We’ve all been told different stories of the ‘birds and the bees’, whether it be from your parents or classmates. What most of us don’t really understand is the different types of contraception and how sometimes it’s uneasy to get a hold of. All through time birth control has received different opinions and several people have tried to ban it altogether or even making it harder to get a hold of. I am going to explain to you the struggles woman face with accessing birth control, why it shouldn’t be banned, and the different viewpoints on this subject overall.

Women face many problems while trying to encounter a safe method to maintain safe intercourse. Whether it be a doctor not wanting to provide it due to biased opinions or even men and/or

Doctors are given the right to deny birth control to women but it shouldn’t be allowed just because of a biased opinion. Another instance where a woman was biased towards the pill was when Julee Lacey was denied contraception while picking up her prescription at CVS because her pharmacist told her, “‘I personally don’t believe in birth control and therefore I’m not going to fill your prescription”’(Prevention). Some people believe that obtaining birth control is so easy but don’t understand that these type of situations happen all over the United States. According to The Nation, Republicans are still continuing attempts to eliminate federal support to Planned Parenthood, making it less available for women with welfare or no insurance at all. The nation also says that members of Congress “claim that zeroing out birth control funds for poor women is

In Vox, they state an opposing view of someone saying, “contraceptives were immoral because they reduced ‘the risk that individuals who engage in premarital sex, extramarital sex, or prostitution will suffer the consequences of venereal disease or unwanted pregnancy”’(North). Basically this quote is saying that if you want to have sex outside of marriage you shouldn’t be safe from pregnancy or diseases, which absurd. There are many cases where premarital sex is alright and isn’t. There are many cases where women don’t become pregnant or don’t catch a disease out of getting raped because they were on the pill. There are over 300,000 cases of rape a year, so this person is saying that all those men or women should have to face the consequences and not have a backup plan. Another opposing view is that women were made to have children and that’s it. Today in 2017, having a child is a choice, it’s not forced upon or expected out of any woman, or at least it shouldn’t be. Birth control doesn’t limit women to never have a child, once the oral pill is not being taken she is capable of having a child. An additional viewpoint from Opposing Viewpoints in Context, is a “belief that birth control pills need to be prescription-only in order to make sure women go to their doctors”. This is a logical viewpoint that is understandable but the statistics don’t back it up. Women would