Q: Who created birth control?
A: Margaret Sanger
Source/Link: http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/companion.asp?id=18&compID=53
MLA: "A New Edition for a New Era - Our Bodies Ourselves." A New Edition for a New Era - Our Bodies Ourselves. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.
A: Margaret Sanger
Source/Link: http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/book/companion.asp?id=18&compID=53
MLA: "A New Edition for a New Era - Our Bodies Ourselves." A New Edition for a New Era - Our Bodies Ourselves. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.
Q: When was modern day birth control created?
A: The Searle drug company receives FDA approval for Enovid - the first birth control pill. "The Pill" revolutionizes contraception. It's 100% effective -- but has terrible side effects, including life-threatening blood clots. Eventually it's realized that the dose is 10 times too high.
Source/Link: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=52188
MLA: "Birth Control History on MedicineNet.com." MedicineNet. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.
A: The Searle drug company receives FDA approval for Enovid - the first birth control pill. "The Pill" revolutionizes contraception. It's 100% effective -- but has terrible side effects, including life-threatening blood clots. Eventually it's realized that the dose is 10 times too high.
Source/Link: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=52188
MLA: "Birth Control History on MedicineNet.com." MedicineNet. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.
Q: Why was birth control created?
A: Margaret Sanger watched her mother die at an early age, which was partly due to the stress of bearing eleven children. After her mother's death she worked as a nurse in New York City and saw many women die from childbirth and self-induced abortion. The horrors that she witnessed there caused her to devote much of her time to promoting birth control for women.
Source/Link: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~nicoleg/history.htm
MLA: "The Birth of The Pill." The Birth of The Pill. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.
A: Margaret Sanger watched her mother die at an early age, which was partly due to the stress of bearing eleven children. After her mother's death she worked as a nurse in New York City and saw many women die from childbirth and self-induced abortion. The horrors that she witnessed there caused her to devote much of her time to promoting birth control for women.
Source/Link: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~nicoleg/history.htm
MLA: "The Birth of The Pill." The Birth of The Pill. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.
Q: How did the freedom of women change?
A: A generation earlier, Margaret Sanger and Katharine McCormick, the "mothers" of the Pill, had insisted that female control of contraception was nothing less than a precondition of the emancipation of women. Since women disproportionately bore the burden of pregnancy and child rearing, they believed women should have a contraceptive they alone controlled. To achieve their goal, they enlisted the help of scientists and physicians. In creating the Pill, the two elderly activists ushered in what one historian called "the contraceptive mentality" -- the belief in the right of a woman to control her own fertility.
Source/Link: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pill/peopleevents/e_lib.html
MLA: PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.
Q: Did unwanted births decline when birth control was first given to women?
A: “Because LARC methods have been shown to have higher continuation rates than other reversible methods, the number of adolescents and women using no contraception would decline, further decreasing the unintended pregnancy rate,” the authors conclude.
Source/Link: http://blog.psiimpact.com/2012/10/further-evidence-that-contraceptive-access-reduces-unwanted-pregnancies-and-abortions/
MLA: "Further Evidence That Contraceptive Access Reduces Unwanted Pregnancies and Abortions |." Further Evidence That Contraceptive Access Reduces Unwanted Pregnancies and Abortions Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.
A: “Because LARC methods have been shown to have higher continuation rates than other reversible methods, the number of adolescents and women using no contraception would decline, further decreasing the unintended pregnancy rate,” the authors conclude.
Source/Link: http://blog.psiimpact.com/2012/10/further-evidence-that-contraceptive-access-reduces-unwanted-pregnancies-and-abortions/
MLA: "Further Evidence That Contraceptive Access Reduces Unwanted Pregnancies and Abortions |." Further Evidence That Contraceptive Access Reduces Unwanted Pregnancies and Abortions Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.
Q: Did STDs decline?
A: By the 1920s, the U.S. birth rate dropped by half -- statistical evidence that the explosion of condom sales and a more modern approach to the rhythm method were in widespread use.
"I would like to say today more men and women are turning to condoms as the answer to STDs, but the evidence shows that we are not seeing a dramatic increase in condom use equal to the dramatic increase in STDs,"
Source/Link: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=51170
MLA: "The History of Birth Control on MedicineNet.com." MedicineNet. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2013.
A: By the 1920s, the U.S. birth rate dropped by half -- statistical evidence that the explosion of condom sales and a more modern approach to the rhythm method were in widespread use.
"I would like to say today more men and women are turning to condoms as the answer to STDs, but the evidence shows that we are not seeing a dramatic increase in condom use equal to the dramatic increase in STDs,"
Source/Link: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=51170
MLA: "The History of Birth Control on MedicineNet.com." MedicineNet. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2013.
Q: How did people view women who were using birth control?
A: It became a symbol of women's rights and generational change — and, for a time, the focus of a debate over whether it led to declining morals. "It's how people reacted to the technology." Other forces — political, cultural, religious and medical — shaped how the pill was perceived and used, she says.
Source/Link: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-05-07-1Apill07_CV_N.htm
MLA: "The Pill: 50 Years of Birth Control Changed Women's Lives - USATODAY.com." The Pill: 50 Years of Birth Control Changed Women's Lives - USATODAY.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2013.
A: It became a symbol of women's rights and generational change — and, for a time, the focus of a debate over whether it led to declining morals. "It's how people reacted to the technology." Other forces — political, cultural, religious and medical — shaped how the pill was perceived and used, she says.
Source/Link: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-05-07-1Apill07_CV_N.htm
MLA: "The Pill: 50 Years of Birth Control Changed Women's Lives - USATODAY.com." The Pill: 50 Years of Birth Control Changed Women's Lives - USATODAY.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2013.
Q: How did it reflect religious views?
A: The pill presented a significant controversy in the face of the Catholic Church. Though the pill became an approved method by the FDA, the church continued to warn against the use of contraceptives.
Source/Link: http://thepill.umwblogs.org/impact/the-pill-and-the-church/
A: The pill presented a significant controversy in the face of the Catholic Church. Though the pill became an approved method by the FDA, the church continued to warn against the use of contraceptives.
Source/Link: http://thepill.umwblogs.org/impact/the-pill-and-the-church/
MLA: "The Pill and the Church." The Birth Control Pill. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2013.
Q: Is it affordable?
A: The Affordable Care Act is the federal health care reform bill that Congress passed and President Obama signed into law in 2010. Under this law, private health insurance plans are beginning to offer birth control and some other preventive services without co-pays or deductibles.
Source/Link: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/politics-policy-issues/affordable-care-act-39966.htm
MLA: "The Affordable Care Act." The Affordable Care Act. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2013.
A: The Affordable Care Act is the federal health care reform bill that Congress passed and President Obama signed into law in 2010. Under this law, private health insurance plans are beginning to offer birth control and some other preventive services without co-pays or deductibles.
Source/Link: http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/politics-policy-issues/affordable-care-act-39966.htm
MLA: "The Affordable Care Act." The Affordable Care Act. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2013.
Q: Have unwanted births gone up or down in today's time?
A: The U.S. unintended pregnancy rate is significantly higher than the rate in many other developed countries. Two-thirds of U.S. women at risk for unintended pregnancy use contraception consistently and correctly throughout the course of any given year; these women account for only 5% of all unintended pregnancies.
Source/Link: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-Unintended-Pregnancy-US.html
MLA: "Facts on Unintended Pregnancy in the United States." Facts on Unintended Pregnancy in the United States. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2013.
A: The U.S. unintended pregnancy rate is significantly higher than the rate in many other developed countries. Two-thirds of U.S. women at risk for unintended pregnancy use contraception consistently and correctly throughout the course of any given year; these women account for only 5% of all unintended pregnancies.
Source/Link: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-Unintended-Pregnancy-US.html
MLA: "Facts on Unintended Pregnancy in the United States." Facts on Unintended Pregnancy in the United States. N.p., n.d. Web. 06 Mar. 2013.
