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Overview - birth control


Capriya Carr

Dr. Harris

ENGL 1101

March 10, 2020

Opposing Viewpoint Workshop

"Birth Control." Gale Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, Gale, 2019. Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/PC3010999160/OVIC?u=ggcl&sid=OVIC&xid=44f04796. Accessed 10 Mar. 2020.

This overview provides truthful facts about contraception, as known as “birth control”. Birth control is very common in America.  In 2015, 79 % of women between 15 and 44 had been engaged in the birth control pill in some way. Birth control is designed to prevent pregnancies because they’re barriers stop the release of a female egg from the ovary, block a male sperm from fertilizing an egg, sterilize an egg or sperm so that it cannot reproduce, or inhibit a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterus. Although, birth control helps prevent pregnancies, it does not prevent diseases. However, birth control completely effective, but there are 1 out of 100 people that still gets pregnant while using birth control.

Hall, Laurie B. "Birth control devices - what's new?" Current Health 2, a Weekly Reader publication, vol. 20, no. 2, Oct. 1993, p. S1+. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A13291485/OVIC?u=ggcl&sid=OVIC&xid=b6572ead. Accessed 11 Mar. 2020.

 In 1960, the IUD birth control came about, then in 1992 the Depo birth control came about. However, depo is the most effective birth control, but it has the most side effects. IUD birth control is the most common birth control. Both are major advantages for users of Depo-Provera and IUD and that is the method doesn’t require taking something every day like the pill. At the same time, however, using these powerful hormones that last for a long time doesn't make sense for someone who has sex infrequently. Once Depo-Provera is injected, it takes 12 weeks for the hormone to leave the body. Both contraceptives, Depo and IUD, can cause changes in the menstrual cycle. These changes, such as very little or excess bleeding or occasional lack of menstruation, can be alarming. However, they usually do not indicate that there is a problem. There also is the risk that both contraceptives can cause side effects, such as nausea and slight weight gain, like those of the birth control pill.

Khazan, Olga. "Block that sperm! The future of birth control, from remote-controlled implants to--at long last--a pill for men." The Atlantic, vol. 315, no. 2, Mar. 2015, p. 34+. Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A403916654/OVIC?u=ggcl&sid=OVIC&xid=f55a1e9d. Accessed 11 Mar. 2020.

        Did you know that birth control was also offered to men? Of course, it’s not the same as women, but they help prevent pregnancies. In 1922, they men birth control was created. In 2008 that’s when birth control for men became popular. Clinicians injected dozens of men across 8 countries with a serum containing the hormones progestin and testosterone. The men then had unprotected sex with their female partners, as part of a male-birth-control trial orchestrated by Conrad, a Virginia-based nonprofit devoted to reproductive-health research. Three years into the trial, things appeared to be going well: just four women had gotten pregnant. On the other hand, Conrad noticed that the men birth control was causing multiple side effects such as, bad acne, weight- gain, and depression, so in 2011 the study was shut down.






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