The Women's Reproductive Rights Movement

Margaret Sanger lived a remarkable life devoted to reform by her slogan “Let every child

Birth Control is the practice of preventing unwanted pregnancies, usually by the use of contraception. Whether it be the implant, patch, pills, shot, or sponge. Some people want to have sex but prevent having children but sometimes these birth control methods don’t always work and some have had lethal consequences in the past.

Many parents do not like the idea of this but, “46% of teens are sexually active and by the time they are seniors 62% are sexually active.” (kurt) This fact is alarming and birth control for teens is a very controversial topic. Should Teens be able to get birth control without consent of parents? We will discuss the positive and negative effects of birth control for teens using the need for birth control, effects of birth control, and the teen mom dropouts to show how necessary birth control is.

Elaine Tyler May delivers a concise historical retrospective and critical analysis of the development, evolution, and impact of the birth control pill from the 1950s to present day. In her book, America and the Pill, examines the relationship of the pill to the feminist movement, scientific advances, cultural implications, domestic and international politics, and the sexual revolution. May argues cogently that the mythical assumptions and expectations of the birth control pill were too high, in which the pill would be a solution to global poverty, serve as a magical elixir for marriages to the extent it would decline the divorce rate, end out-of-wedlock pregnancies, control population growth, or the pill would generate sexual pandemonium and ruin families. May claims the real impact of the pill—it’s as a tool of empowerment for women, in which it allows them to control their own fertility and lives.

“With funding from International Harvester heiress Katharine McCormick, Sanger recruited researcher Gregory Pincus to develop an oral contraceptive or "magic pill." The result, Enovid, was approved for usage by the Food and Drug Administration in 1960.” (Katz, 2010) All of her efforts helped to continue with the study and research regarding birth

Before the 1960s, not all women were allowed access to the popular birth control contraceptive known as “the pill.” Birth control pills were only given to married couples, due to the Supreme Court ruling in the year 1965. However, what about all the other unmarried women who needed means of contraceptives, right? Well, it was not until the year of 1972, that the supreme court ruled in Baird versus Eisenstadt, that the oral birth control contraceptive be legalized for all women regardless of what they marital status was at the time. This time period from the 1960s - 1980s was known as the Sexual Revolution.

Birth Control pills are a sort of drug that ladies can take every day to anticipate pregnancy. They are additionally frequently called "the pill" or oral contraception (Rowan 2011) Hormones are compound substances that control the working of the body 's organs. For this situation, the hormones in the Pill control the ovaries and the uterus.

The sexualization of women in the media is often overlooked in today’s world; as a result of frequency and the normalization it has received from the beginning. Although sexist ideology against women originates from an extremely young age, the perspective of women being sexually active for intentions that are not linked to reproduction is still viewed as being taboo. The twentieth century allowed women to have a yet another source of empowerment with the creation of a revolutionary oral contraceptive that would become a turning point in American medicine and life. This option created a decrease in the amount of teen pregnancies, thus allowing women to further their education which in turn, lowers the wage

Margaret Sanger discusses the importance of female access to contraceptives in her piece titled “Birth Control”. Sanger argues that “no woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother”, implying that birth control is the key to any form of autonomy (Sanger 144). Sanger is aware that it takes two to tango, however emphasizes that a women’s body is hers and only hers to protect. Motherhood can be an occupation in itself, which is why women should be able to choose whether or not she wants to apply for the job. With motherhood comes time consuming tasks and a large range of responsibilities, that today average to about 4.5 hours per day.

In America and The Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation, Elaine May Tyler examined the history of birth control in the United States. May traced the pill's conception and evolution the United States through to the twenty-first century. The book consisted of an introduction, seven chapters, and a conclusion. May approached the topic in the context of influence of suffragist and reformer Margaret Sanger's advocacy originating in the late Progressive Era and Cold War American ideology, through to the emerging movements of the sexual revolution and the feminist movement, including acknowledging political, religious, racial, socio-economic, and gender bias factors. May argued that the "promise" of the birth control pill did not solve social ills such as over population in developing countries or on the domestic front, guarantee marital bliss, or incite or perpetuate the sexual revolution. Rather, women that had the opportunity chose contraception for personal benefit as it empowered

The government expressed a lot of contempt toward different races (414). This partially explains the struggles of human rights in the U.S. This essay explains who the started the reproductive justice movement and how it came to be. It is a social movement that started with the help of W.O.C. Feminists describe woman rights as “human rights” (414) and it is 100% true. Women are human, men are human, we all deserve to have the same rights, equality in the justice system. One men feel threatened and vulnerable, they start to control the lives of those who are gaining power (415). Having women of color construct this movement makes it harder for it to take off. Roe v. Wade is a big part of reproductive rights, essentially human rights. It is viewed

At the age of eighteen, Kris Halloway as an American woman would not have been able to buy alcohol or rent a car. However, her Malian female counterparts are married off at that exact age, eighteen on average. With marriage and incident consummation coming at such an early age, access to contraception would be vital to prevent pregnancy. Even with not only the requisite physical access to contraception but also cultural and societal power to demand its use, American women have untold numbers of unwanted pregnancies every year. With only six percent of Malian women having access to contraception, and undoubtedly some with access bring overruled by their husbands about usage, it is no surprise that the average woman in Mali has 6.8 children during her

Through differences and similarities Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, shows the future for reproductive technologies. While this novel was written in the 1930’s, the ideas used in the book are actually used in the modern world. Reproductive technologies are used to treat infertility and increase reproduction in different ways and some are used as contraceptives. Through the use of modern reproductive technologies Huxley gives a more controversial view about the use them, some of the few that brought attention were the use of contraceptive pills, test-tube babies, and the process of in vitro fertilization.

Many women across the world debate whether using/taking birth control is right for them. Women can argue that birth control doesn 't do any good for them and that it is not effective at all. There are also women that can agree that birth control is very helpful and that it is useful for them when they need it the most. In the United States, almost 50% of all pregnancies are not planned every year. With those unwanted pregnancies about 32% end in abortion, and with the option of birth control many of those unwanted pregnancies can be prevented or it can may even be stopped.

There is a new thing out in public called “Birth Control”. It is designed to stop unwanted pregnancies. The first form of early contraceptives was fish bladder condoms. From the topic Birth Control we will be looking from when Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic, through the many stages of birth control forms, to side effects and re-inventions, failures, preventions, negative publicity, and other aspects of birth control between the 1910’s-present.