Arguments For and Against Birth Control

Birth Control: Arguments for and Against

The birth control methods have been with us for many decades now and without shadow of doubt they are meant to control or stop untimely pregnancies among teenagers who may be sexually active or even among married people who are not ready to have a child at the time they are having intercourse. There are varieties of methods that are taken ranging from those taken before and those taken after the sexual intercourse. These controls have solicited arguments and counterarguments as much as they have been around and in use. There are groups of people who are against their use and those pro-their use and both with vivid reasons.

Arguments for birth control

The first obvious argument is undoubtedly the fact that the control methods help in pacing out the child birth into the desired arrangement that the individual would like to have within the family as agreed on between couples and to avoid untimely pregnancies among the youth as indicated above. This has been the long held and traditional use of the birth control pills. They help regulate the number of children that they have into the family with relative ease.

The other argument is that, birth control is of the easiest methods of taking good control of the social and economic aspect of our lives. The argument is simply based on the fact that while giving birth, there are tied responsibilities that come with it and expectations that are related to it. These need emotional presence, social guide and most important and crucial the financial. With a predictable population trend and a controlled population increase, there is a likelihood that a nation can be more in control of their economic trend and direction as well. This is a difficult endeavor for any government that has a population that grows faster than the economic strength, one that cannot account for their population and the population increase is on the high run without necessary controls. Guttmacher Institute (2008) further indicates that one of the central reasons for poverty and social discord among the poor nations is the ever increasing population competing for the ever limited resources like food, education, schools among others. This indicates that this conflict and competition can be solved by population control.

Birth control also empowers women socially, economically and health wise. This is bearing that through it women can make a decision to have more children in a time space that is acceptable to them within the social setting they are in. This choice gives them the ample time to balance their social life with the economic endeavors hence not remaining economically disadvantaged and dependent on men due to childbearing. The social independence and economic stability will also lead to better health for the mothers and the population at large. Hence, it is significant to note that the birth control aspect is a thing that starts from personal level but affects the wider society.

Arguments against birth control

One of the most prominent arguments against birth control is the view that this is an act that is unnatural, anti-life, a form of abortion and separates sex from reproduction. These are arguments that emanate from the fact that some of the methods used in controlling birth usually some after the sexual intercourse like the use of pills and also the fact that most of the methods are not nature provided but an improvisation of the scientific world for instance the use of condoms and implants. These, it is argued, interferes with the natural balance of the world and natural evolution of man, it is a type of assisted or directed evolution of mankind as viewed by the proponents of this argument, which to them is not the best model.