WHAT BIRTH CONTROL CAN DO FOR INDIA

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Is birth control killing a life or preventing one?

Is birth control killing a life or preventing one is a theoretical question which is also a knife with two blades. Killing or preventing, is there some difference? Yes if we would look from dictionary definition point of view, but if we would look at this question from a real life point of view what would be the answer then? India is a country that has over 1.2 billion people and every year their population grows for another 1.8 percent. In 1951 Indian government passed legislation for a “national family planning” program. With the help of that program fertility rate is reduced to 2.6 percent but it is still high enough. The main problem of so high fertility rate is lack of knowledge about birth control. Just 31 percent of population use condom. Birth control is bad for woman and babies.  

Birth control pills are preventing ovulations by thickening the cervical mucus, if there is a baby inside the woman it can kill the baby because birth control pills prevent implantation and baby cannot connect to her mother by novel cord and on that way baby cannot take necessary products for its growth. Twelve types of birth control pills exist on a market. The most common way of contraception is so called “combination pills” which needs to be taken every day at same time, “progestin-only” pill which was the same effect as “combination pill” but it is safer for those who are smokers, diabetics or have heart or blood problems because it does not contain estrogen. “Extended-cycle pill” are preventing woman’s to have a period in less than three months’ time from the previous one, there is still not any research showing how is this effecting woman. There are also few birth controls which are not taken as pills such as: “vaginal ring”, “diaphragm” is like circles which woman putts inside her vagina and those rings function is to release hormones same as the pills contain but directly into vagina which has less side effects to a woman. “IUD” or “ParaGard” is a device which is inside a vagina surgically installed and it blokes a way for a seed to go further into uterus. Hormonal patch is a new born method of contraception and for some woman it is easier for use. Still male and female condoms are the safest ways of preventing pregnancy; they don’t have any side effects if a person who uses it doesn’t have allergy on latex. There is also so called “plan b” pills and they are used if the sex was without any safety and there is a possibility of unwanted pregnancy but they are much more unsafe because those kinds of pills contain more hormones than regular ones. The safest thing for a woman who wants to never have kids is putting implant which needs to be changed every three years or sterilization.

Birth control pills have many side effects; some of them are not serious like headache, dizziness, nausea and mood changes and many more. The most painful side effect is bleeding and it is also the most common effect of birth control pills, it can cause infections which could be very serious problem. In India the most common method of contraception is “IUD” or “ParaGard” which is a small device which goes into woman’s vagina and its prevents male seed to adopt and conceived baby, after removing the device woman returns to normal and she can get pregnant, that is why it is common in India. Just 31 percent of Indian population is using condoms as a kind of protection, third most common method of contraception in India is woman’s sterilization with 19 percent of female Indian population doing it, and birth control pills are using just 9 percent of woman in India. Sterilization is one of most popular birth controls in India because many regions in India started giving free cars and appliances to those who got sterilized but still just 2 percent of male get sterilized and 19 percent of woman, which also means that India is not so democratic country.

Birth control as a way of preventing unwanted pregnancy is the greatest control. But many researches made are showing that if woman is taking birth control while she is pregnant it will kill a baby, also birth control as a pill or a patch could have possible permanent effects on a woman, hormone levels could be change which can cause permanent sterilization or even kill a woman. That is why it is the best to use condoms for a safe sex or if a person doesn’t want to have children than sterilization, because these are the only two possibilities that are not changing our organism, yes sterilization changes because that person cannot have children any more but that will not change anything in his organism, no hormone level change.  “IUD” is the safest thing for a woman, it is safer than a condom and it does not make any permanent changes to uterus. And when it is removed woman can get pregnant like before she had installed “IUD” inside her uterus. India only possibility is to make sexual education as a class in school and also to try to explain to woman and man what is birth control and to give free condoms and “IUDs”. Also woman and man who want to get sterilized that governments pays for that, because many of Indian people don’t have money for general needs and not for birth control items which could be very expensive.

Birth control is killer of a life and also it is preventing one temporally if we are taking about pills and patches but if we are taking about sterilization as a way of a birth control than it is killing any possibility of a new life so than it is a killer and also it is preventing one permanently. India wants to stabiles the growth of the population but still too have a healthy nation, so birth control pills and patches are also not for them, they need to use condoms, ”IUDs” and sterilization, that the percent of people using these birth controls to be tripled. Also genetics is passing from a generation to a generation and if somebody was a criminal or murderer that stays in his genes and there is higher possibility that that person child will also be like that, so government could sterilize those people and on that way they will get less population and less violent one. What will India do?