Why contraception

Adding to this, different birth control methods have different doses and combinations of hormones. You may need to try a few options before you find the one that works for your symptoms.

Endometriosis is a painful condition that happens when the tissue lining your uterus, called the endometrium, grows in places other than inside your uterus. Hormonal birth control methods help because they allow you to skip periods. Continuous birth control pills and IUDs are usually good options for managing endometriosis. A migraine is an intense type of headache that affects almost 30 million Americans — 75 percent of those being women. This is partly because hormonal changes are a major trigger for migraines in some people.

Experts think menstrual migraines are linked to a drop in estrogen and progesterone just before your period starts. Hormonal birth control methods that allow you to skip your period, such as a continuous pill, implant, or IUD, can help to avoid this drop.

For most menstruating women, bleeding is just a fact of life. If you have a big vacation or other event coming up during that week, skip the placebo pills. Instead, start a new pack. This method works best if you take monophasic birth control pills, which all contain the same dose of hormones.

Read more about skipping the last week of birth control pills in a pack. Some women experience very heavy bleeding during their periods. This can increase the risk of anemia. Hormonal birth control methods that allow you to skip your period can help to prevent period-related anemia. If you smoke and are over the age of 35, it can increase your risk of blood clots and high blood pressure. In addition, some types of hormonal birth control, such as combination pills and the patch, can increase your risk of blood clots and high blood pressure, even in nonsmokers.

For some, hormonal birth control can also cause a range of physical and emotional symptoms, from joint pain to psychosis.

Your doctor can help you weigh the benefits and risks of each method to determine what will work best for you. Bedsider, a nonprofit organization committed to preventing unwanted pregnancy, also has a tool that allows you to find providers of free or low-cost birth control in your area.

Birth control pills are small tablets taken daily that contain hormones to prevent pregnancy. They essentially prevent ovulation. A rash is one of the most common side effects of the birth control patch.

It usually clears up within a few days and can be treated at home. Does this mean you have to try to have as many children as possible? Again, no. Good question. Written in the s, the predictions of its 17th paragraph are particularly insightful. And if you want to stay emotionally and physically healthy, enjoy your married life. And keep your dinner down. Notice how the pope refers to sex with your wife as impure,this has no reference to contraception.

Many popes hailed this Moral theologians in the medeval times knew sex in marriage was dirt but argued how much dirt was involved. Pure Garbage. Recent popes backed out of the claim regarding Onan because he was not killed for contraception. The egg was found in ,the seed of the male was not human life as Aquinas believed. The Church—which is the people long rejected this nonsense that every act of contraception is a sin.

And women should obviously rejoice when they are impregnated by rapists, since God has clearly blessed them. Theology fail. Children are conceived after immoral if consensual acts of fornication, too premarital sex, adulterous relationships. Children are not always a blessing.

If the woman does not want a kid there is nothing at all that will be a blessing in her continuing the misery of the unwanted pregnancy. In fact if it is unwanted I view it more as a way for anti-choicers to punish women who have se x for a reason besides pregnancy.

Bocelli is not impressed read below. A lot of folks have been blessed by his music, in fact…. For me there would be NO blessing in an unwanted pregnancy. Reality check, Someone both men and women have been fielding unintended pregnancies for the last…well, forever.

Thinking short-term, unfortunately, leads to the type of societal view you describe, where a girl thinks her life is absolutely over if she gets pregnant. She was an unintended pregnancy of the most difficult sort, and she lists others born under her circumstance here:. The kid would destroy everything good in my life and give me only misery every day. Nothing to live for, hm? What are some of those goods a child destroys?

I will say that there are freedoms I do not have today, as a dad, that I had when I was But: as a dad, I can say that I have different joys than I had as a teenager. And no pleasure at all? The adults with the wrong attitudes about sex and kids are the problems.

I use BC so I plan to NOT get pregnant since a pregnancy would only bring me misery and a child would destroy my life. Why would I bring up adoption? I want a child free life and a kid would only bring me misery and hold me back. If you want to know my views on kids google reasons to be child free childfreedom blogspt. Based upon your writings, you give a clear notion that you feel children are a burden to be avoided, rather than a blessing to be celebrated. I am very glad my own folks did not treat me as though I were a burden, but a blessing to them instead.

Could it not be, Someone45, that your own thinking has been altered in this direction? These are consequences of societal acceptance of Contraception, and you have illustrated it more with each posting. You are right; there is nothing wrong with a child-free life. Many Catholic Saints were called to just such a life, married and unmarried. However, I would gently suggest you read the quote by Sigmund Freud in this article to see where a societal divorce between the emotional and biological purposes of sex necessarily lead.

Children ARE a burden and there would be nothing good in having a child for me. Pregnancy IS misery and a child is a burden and a punishment. Most of human history sees children very, very differently. Why do you think in the modern era we see children as problems to be avoided, rather than blessing to be celebrated? Someone, children are a burden? Life ruining misery? Were you a burden? You, as a child, were a blessing.

A blessing. And you are a blessing today. So wrong. Many things are a misery that are worth it in the end. And every cild is worth it. You, Me. Everyone who reads this. We all were worth it. I understand quite well how you view children, someone What I wonder, and what you continue to dodge, is why? You keep on saying that…. I do not think it means what you think it means. You keep saying what you think, but not why.

You are more likely to be an engaged and involved aunt or uncle because you are not jaded and worn down by your own kids. You can eat whatever foods you wish at whatever time of the day you wish out in the open, whether it be a gourmet, exotic meal, or chocolate chip cookies. You will have the time and energy to exercise regularly and take care of your health and appearance.

You will stay informed and engaged in current events and will remain an interesting conversationalist. You will minimize your carbon footprint and do far less damage to the environment than your childed peers. You can be yourself for better or worse without worrying about having to be a good example. You can live in whatever town or city you like without concerning yourself with quality of school districts, child-friendliness, etc.

You will be able to travel more frequently and your travels will not be limited to summer or school break times, or to kid-friendly destinations. Speaking of vacations, you will be able to use your paid time off for vacations, instead of burning your days to take care of sick kids.

You will maintain the capacity to be spontaneous — to do things spur of the moment, without complex planning or babysitter arrangements. You can curse, swear, debate and vent freely in your home without worrying about censoring yourself. You will be better able to retain your youthfulness and sex appeal because your body will not be ravaged by childbearing and a crappy diet. You can eat your meals in peace without having to continually jump up and down to serve people.

You can own whatever type of car you prefer — you are not limited to mini-vans, SUVs and other family-friendly gas-guzzlers. You can live in whatever type of home you like. Spiral staircases, wooden stairs, sharp-edged countertops, a small backyard, busy street are not necessarily deal-breakers.

Your gasoline expenses will be much lower than a family with children fewer shopping trips and errands, no chauffeuring. You will have the energy and interest to maintain an active, attentive and enjoyable sex life. You will have the freedom to come and go at will — you will remain independent, self-determined and autonomous. You will have plenty of down time if you desire — naps, reading, meditating, lounging, listening to music.

Your life will have a manageable and comfortable pace. You will not be harried and stressed out, running around like a headless chicken trying to do it all. You will have the time and energy to actively contribute to the community — volunteer work, civic involvement, etc. You can watch whatever you like on television at any time without censoring and you can watch complete shows or movies without constant interruptions. You will spend far less time and effort on housework than families with children the time and effort you will save on laundry alone is substantial.

You will never have to deal with raising a troubled child drugs, pregnancy, STDs, delinquency, truancy, crime and will never be saddled with raising grandchildren because your teen child gets pregnant or gets someone pregnant.

Your life will continue to be flexible. You will not have to change diapers, wipe snotty noses or all of the many other stomach-turning things a parent must do. You will not have to endure crying, screaming, fighting, temper tantrums and other surly child behavior.

You will never have to fight with a child over homework or worse yet, have to sit and do homework with a child. You will never have to attend PTA meetings, parent-teacher conferences or other school-related drudgery.

You will never have endure endless hours of noisy, electronic toys shrieking through your house. You will be more easily able to escape a bad marriage if you should need to than if you had kids, without having to maintain ties with your ex. Assuming you get married, your marriage will be more egalitarian than it would be if you had children.

You will not have to adhere to traditional gender roles. You can beautify your property with gardens, waterfalls, trees and other natural features instead of stripping it bare for a play area, or junking it up with swing sets, sporting equipment and toys.

Your vacations will actually be relaxing and you will come home rested and refreshed, instead of wiped out and in need of a second vacation. If you have medical insurance and your employer requires you to contribute, your premiums will be much lower than they would if you had kids. You will never have to worry about whether you are a bad parent or the long-term psychological damage you are inflicting on a child.

Going out for an errand will entail hopping into your car, buckling your seatbelt and leaving instead of a full half hour production to get the kids dressed, fed, ready and situated in the car. You will never have to pack and lug around huge bags of stuff every time you leave the house. On long drives, you can listen to whatever music, radio programs or books on tape you enjoy — instead of grating kiddie music. Your pets can roam freely in your house with no fear of being sat on, squeezed, poked, or having their ears, hair or tails pulled.

Your mornings will be quiet and relaxed, instead of a chaotic, beat-the-clock marathon having multiple people to corral, bathe, feed, dress and get out the door on time.

You will not have to pay thousands of dollars a year on child care, or burden your family members by using them as babysitters. You will never have to hire a babysitter. Being aggravated, frustrated and irate at home will be a rare occurrence, as opposed to a daily occurrence if you had kids.

Your boss will appreciate having a reliable employee who works her full hours, calls out sick only rarely, can work overtime if needed, and take on special projects. You might even get a raise, or get promoted. You will never have to feel torn between your career and your family — feeling like you are spread too thin and not doing a great job at either. Yes, children require work, money and personal sacrifice, but these are all things we do willingly because we love them.

These are joyful sacrifices for a worthwhile cause. Here are a few of the perks of having children, in no particular order. Some are tongue-in-cheek, while others are dead serious. Please understand that I am not criticizing those who do not have children, particularly those who struggle with infertility.

My point is that children are a blessing and a delight, not a burden to be avoided at all costs. Embarrass your kids. Displays of affection with your spouse work well for this. Think pregnancy dooms you to getting fat? Take a look at my mom with her 14 kids. Can you even tell which one she is? If you do get sick, you have someone to take care of you without your spouse taking time off work.

Let your kids try it out. Marvel that 2 people can produce children that are better-looking than either parent. Heredity is a strange and wonderful thing. Be welcomed home like a returning war hero every time you go grocery shopping or to the post office. Soft little fingers and toes. Have the advantage of a youthful memory again: have your kids remind you about important things. Kids with money ROCK! And why one? He seeks godly offspring. Malachi Were you that bad for mom? I doubt it.

So you think sex should only be done for reproduction? Explains why you anti-choice people are so bitter and uptight. Strawman argument. I simply stated a biological fact — sex is biologically intended to create kids. But if you choose to engage in sex, the consequence may be that the biological act of sex results in its intended biological consequence — conception. Sex has other purposes besides reproduction and to expect a woman to be willing to get pregnant every time she has sex is disgusting, wrong, and degrades women.

So, you will freely engage in the act that is biologically intended to create children, and if the act works as intended from a biological standpoint, you will kill an innocent child.

That seems very illogical. The most logical stance, if you are so against having children that you will kill any that result from your actions, is to not engage in the action that creates them. I should not be punished if I am unlucky and my BC fails. Therefore, logically, the safest and most effective way for you to prevent pregnancy is to not engage in sex. Did you cause ruin, misery, and harm to the lives of your parents? An embryo is not a child and abortion does not kill it.

It simply prevents the embryo from developing into a child. A unwanted pregnancy and child would cause me ruin, misery, and harm because it would destroy my life and leave me with nothing to live for. Absolutely you are in control of your body. You can choose not to engage in the act that creates children, and then you have nothing to worry about.

But if you do, then you have no control over the biological processes that result. An embryo is a human being. It is an organism of the species homo sapiens. A child is a colloquial name for a young human being. Therefore, an embryo is a child. This is biological fact. What is your evidence? I will continue to have sex with my bf and if my BC fails I will abort the embryo. It needs its host to develop into an actual child.

I do know that a child would destroy my life. I know the kind of life that comes with kids and it is not something I would enjoy. I enjoy being able to sleep through the night without some screaming brat waking me up, I enjoy being able to spend time with my bf without some screaming brat ruining it, I enjoy the fact that my dogs and cat are not terrorized by some brat who thinks he is playing with them….

An embryo is a child. I gave you the definition above. Do you deny that biological fact? A newborn also needs the help of adults to grow and thrive. Do you think that newborns are not children? And again, how do you know with certainty that a child would bring you misery? Why are you only looking at the negative aspects of parenthood? People change. You never know. I know what I want out of life better than an anti-choicer does. There are no positive aspects of parenting for me to look at so all I have to look at is the negative.

I think it is possible to have a relationship that is not based solely on sex, yes. How do you KNOW that a life with kids, or even a pregnancy, would bring you nothing but misery? How do you know? Have you ever been wrong in your life? In fact, I think choices are good things. Why do you think that murder is a viable choice? Do you oppose all current laws against murder as well? But that would be because of something tragic- and I hope neither of us are in that situation - someone making the choice to refuse to have sex when they are able to is different.

Sex is not a necessary part of being a romantic relationship. Just ask anyone married to someone whose has been permanently damaged so that they are no longer capable of having sex.

I hope you realize that there is much more to a romantic relationship than sex. And I am a potential mid-aged or elderly person. So you admit that an embryo is a kid? If you are so concerned about having a miserable pregnancy, why do you engage in an activity that will bring it about? What happens though is something happens to prevent what you want out of life from happening?

Say you loose your legs. You sound as though you want to be miserable. One can be miserable or one can change course. The only thing consistent about life is that it changes.

A part of a romantic relationship IS sex. Most people have temporary abstinence and some permanently. Gandhi gave up sex at around age It was a common thing that Hindus did. He did so because his wife asked him. Point is not everyone holds the view that you do. Sex is only one part, but not the whole of a romantic relationship. In order to turn into an elderly person, I will need an adequate amount of oxygen, food, water, and an over-all general good health to reach that point.

Someone denying me this environment would be essentially killing me. And people tend to frown on that. And you are incorrect.

That would imply that the embryo is a parasite. An embryo needs a parent more specifically a mother in order to survive. Much like living in a smog-free environment will help me survive. An embryo does need a host… 1.

It cannot survive without a host 2. It dumps toxic waste into its host 3. It leeches nutrients from its host 4. It harms, maims, and can kill its host 5. It can destroy the life of the host. An embryo is of the same species. It fits the basic definition of a parasite… would you feel better if I said it was similar to a parasite?

The basic definition of a parasite is being a different species from the host. Offspring is the correct definition of an embryo since it is the same species. Parasites, generally speaking, can never survive outside the host. All of my biology teachers called the embryo a potential life.

While inside its host a ZEF is nothing but a worthless parasite. I feel like the mother from the book The Giver when I say this but…. A zygote, embryo, or fetus is not a parasite. It cannot be a parasite because it is the same species. It is called offspring. To say that it is a parasite or a worthless parasite is ramping up rhetoric. Furthermore, an embryo is not a potential life.

It is either alive or dead or non-existent. If it were dead, it would not be able to grow. Instead it would decompose. Therefore, by deductive reasoning and based on objective observation, one can safely assume that since an embryo exists and is not dead, it must be alive.

If you wish to argue personhood, that is a separate issue. It is SIMILAR to a parasite… It needs its host and leeches nutrients from its host and can harm, maim, and kill its host and it dumps toxic waste into its host. An embryo is not a parasite. It is not a separate organism. It is brought about the sexual reproduction whereas a parasite infects the host. Coming to term has nothing to do with being alive.

Embryos are only one stage in human development. I am at one stage, my children another, my parents another. We are all humans; we are all alive. If you cannot acknowledge basic biological terms and instead hype up rhetoric, then we cannot conduct a discussion. Parasites and offspring are different things. Hosts and parents are different things. These are biological truths. Please do not distort the facts to suit your own agenda.

I am not… If it needs a host it is a parasite. The embryo needs a host so therefore it is a parasite. To me she is not a mother unless she plans to birth the kid.

Would you feel better if I said it was similar to a parasite. I merely asked that you acknowledge biological terms correctly and use them correctly if you wished to continue a conversation. The fact remains that embryos are not parasites. I tend to engage in abortion discussions using biological evidence and philosophical reasoning. If this is not how you prefer to conduct your conversations, than we can end the discussion now. My time is valuable. I agree and if you cannot see the similarities between an embryo and a parasite we really have nothing else to say to each other.

I will pray for you, your child, and your boyfriend. Pax Christi. Actually, not everyone who conceives a child generally wants a child. Some decide to parent, and realize that having a child was not nearly as awful as they thought it would be. Some decide to place their children for adoption, and make other couples who do want children very happy. Then you would not have to have sleepless nights, etc. I am a parent — I have 5 children and one on the way.

And yes, there are sleepless nights, messy house, tantrums, financial limitations, etc. I may have the occasional sleepless night, but I get snuggles with my kids too.

They are occasionally sick, but we have fun snuggling on the couch and watching movies if they are. They sometimes throw tantrums, but they more often give hugs and kisses and tell funny jokes and stories.

The thing is adoption is an alternative to being a parent. It is NOT an alternative to the misery of pregnancy. There would be no benefits about being a breeding cow for some other woman. My life would be destroyed. If I want someone to snuggle with I have my boyfriend and my pets. I do not need a snot nosed, disease carrying child. I do not want to snuggle with a sick kid and watch some boring G rated movie.

For you the sacrifices of having kids is worth it… for me it would be life ruining misery. And why does your desire to avoid alleged misery trump the right to life of another human being? Hardly boring G-rated movies. You WANT kids so the misery is worth it to you. You can put on a smile after spending hours throwing up and after you have only slept 4 hours in the past three days because the suffering is worth it to you since you are going to get something you want in the end.

I was pregnant and I had an abortion. That short time I was pregnant was nothing but misery- and I was able to take stuff to help with the misery- all pregnant woman can do is suffer. Yes, it is quite miserable. But my physical misery does not justify killing an innocent human being, especially when there is medication to help. I am sorry you did not get the medical help you needed to manage your nausea.

Have you ever visited HelpHer. And I am sorry for the death of your child. You want the kids so the misery if worth it to you. An embryo was aborted and it saved my life. An embryo is not fully alive since it needs a host to sustain its existence.

ANY adult can care for the newborn… It does not require the same ne person to suffer endless misery to care for it. An embryo IS a potential developing human and if the host decides to bring it to term it will become an actual human. Contraception allows them to put off having children until their bodies are fully able to support a pregnancy.

It can also prevent pregnancy for older people who face pregnancy-related risks. Contraceptive use reduces the need for abortion by preventing unwanted pregnancies. It therefore reduces cases of unsafe abortion, one of the leading causes of maternal death worldwide. Contraceptive use also reduces teenage pregnancies.

For a developed country, New Zealand has a high adolescent fertility rate, at By using contraception , young people can prevent unwanted pregnancies that can have negative impacts on their relationships and ambitions. Early pregnancy can also cause health problems for the baby. Babies born to teenagers are likely to be underweight before and at birth and are at higher risk of neonatal mortality dying within 28 days of birth.

Pregnancies that are too close together or poorly timed contribute to high infant mortality rates — that is, the rate of babies that die within their first year of life.

Contraceptive use lets people plan their pregnancies so they can make sure the baby is getting the best care before and after birth. In the s, before reliable contraception such as the Pill was available, New Zealand had an infant mortality rate of In that rate was 3. Better healthcare and hygiene, as well as the use of modern contraceptive methods, have contributed to this great improvement. Contraceptive use slows population growth.

This is important because overpopulation puts pressure on the environment, the economy and services such as education and health.