What Are The Pros And Cons Of Birth Control

Birth control is a widely controversial topic among young teenage girls. While many people may think that a teenager is on birth control for sexual use, there are more advantages to it. Birth control can be used to help with a teenage girl’s menstrual cramps, acne, preventing pregnancy, and you are less likely to get ovarian and uterine cancer. Certain birth controls can also help prevent pelvic inflammatory disease, ovarian cysts and anemia. While adults see birth control as the worst thing you can give to your teen daughter, they obviously have not done their research. In 1960 the birth control pill was passed and approved by the U.S Food and Drug administration. Ever since then, the pill has been transformed into a choice of a shot every three months or everyday orally taking the pill. According to Birth
“Our daughter is prescribed a lower dosage of birth control pills to fight cervical cancer since we have the irregular gene that brings on the horrible disease.” Rosa from New York. Another catching story from weareultraviolet.org comes from Jenny in Hawaii. “I am on birth control because I suffered a pelvic injury that is worsened by menstrual symptoms. . . being on birth control minimizes the pain women normally experienced during menstrual cycles.” Reading personal stories of how birth control helped people in their lives makes your realize on how much people can benefit from using birth control other than preventing pregnancy. If birth control is being used to prevent pregnancy then there is nothing wrong with that. Imagine you daughter asking you for birth control and you tell her no. She has a boyfriend and she is sexually active and is too scared to tell you about it. She ends up pregnant and aborting it. Now you’re blaming yourself for not letting her be on it in the first