Donald Duck: Family Planning

In 1967, Walt Disney Studios, in collaboration with the Population Council, released an animated movie called Family Planning. The movie features Donald Duck illustrating the burdens of unlimited reproduction while a narrator describes the benefits of limiting family size. Donald Duck was used to promote the use of contraception as part of an international movement against overpopulation that flourished in the 1960s and 1970s. This film started the birth control movement in mass media.
While this movie did help some with people reproducing. Research has shown that “unintended pregnancies account for almost one half of all U.S. pregnancies and more than 70% of pregnancies outside of marriage.” These pregnancies are especially common in women

They chose this method because it’s known as the “fit and forget” birth control. This birth control is considered a LARC method (long-acting reversible contraception). LARC methods are more cost-effective than the pill and condoms. Since you put it in and forget about it they thought they had nothing to worry about because you don’t have to take a pill everyday, it’s cheaper, and you know that you wont get pregnant. They were wrong, they experienced some side effects that came with using the implant that they were not prepared for. That’s why 32.7% of women remove their implant within a

Some of the good side effects are you can become more regular, have lighter periods, even no periods at all, less cramping, and they’re highly effective. Some of the bad side effects that come with using birth control are breast tenderness, spotting, serious blood clots, skin irritation, raised blood pressure, and the birth control being expensive. Those are just some of the reasons why women have a love hate relationship with birth control. That’s why it takes so much time and research to find what birth control is right for you because you need to know the kind of side effects that comes with the birth control method you