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Modern Birth Control faced many challenges by society. Birth control is seen as both a positive and negative thing. People do not take into account the benefits that it can provide such as it can reduce the chances of obtaining an ovarian cyst and cancer as well as a reduction of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID). Some disadvantages are the side effects it may cause such as weight gain, abdominal pain, and leg swelling. It also doesn’t protect people from obtaining Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) or Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). During the nineteenth century, there was a federal ban on the sale and consumption of contraceptives. The pill was later introduced in the twentieth century with restrictions only allowing married women to obtain the pill and prohibiting single women from taking it. Examples of ways society has affected birth control are religious leaders who say it is a sin, politics placing laws to prohibit the distribution of it, and extreme measures being taken when the laws were broken. Activists fought for women's reproductive rights and birth control. Only in recent years, society has begun to accept the idea of women using birth control. There are a variety of birth control that women can choose from, there are birth control pills, diaphragms, spermicides, Intrauterine devices (IUDs), and the most common form of birth control condoms. The following scholarly books and articles are based on birth control, women's rights, reproductive rights, and society's view it describes the process and evolution of birth control through the centuries and how women fight for their reproductive rights, and it explains the different methods of birth control.
“ Birth Control and Female Empowerment: An Equilibrium Analysis,” by Pierre-Andre Chiappori and Sonia Oreffice, is an analysis by the Journal of Political Economy. This article discusses how birth control helps empower women in the economy and the reformation of birth control for all women (Chiappori and Oreffice 116). Chiappori states that the introduction of the new birth control technology allowed mobility to earn income, which may discourage some women from becoming mothers unless they receive adequate compensated women to control their fertility, the pill at first was only offered to married women and then later on it was offered to single women (Chiappori and Oreffice 116). He also argues further against the usage of birth control, “motherhood decreases a woman's action” (Chiappori and Oreffice 115). This shows us that women overthink the possibility of becoming mothers when they do not have a proper husband to support them through the process but also considering single women the shortage of a father does not come to the benefit of a single mother. The process of making the pill available to every single woman reduces the probability of obtaining unwanted pregnancies from both married women and single further describing it as “p to some p’
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