Reproductive Rights and Birth Control

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If someone was asked to hold a child in one hand and a petri dish in the other, but they had to drop one what would they drop? Most people would drop the petri dish without a second thought, but what if i said there was an embryo on the petri dish? Does this change what they would drop? Okay now lets get rid of the baby and in its place put a future: finishing high school and going to college, finding love, traveling the world, and getting a nice job before settling and living comfortably for the rest of their lives. If someone held all of that in one hand and a petri dish with an embryo in the other what would they drop now? I hope that most would still drop the petri dish, but what i find sad is that a good portion of people would not drop it. In 2012 around 10.7 million women were using oral contraceptive and yet around half of all reported pregnancies were unplanned (Insurance Coverage par. 1). Birth control is widely available, and oral contraceptives only costs 15 to 50 dollars a month depending on the type prescribed (Birth Control). Even with the medicine being covered by most insurance plans it can still be hard to get for people who cannot afford a medical exam or those who are not allowed to by their family or partner. Most people who need contraception or access to abortion are married people or have children already, In fact, around 60 percent of all people who get an abortion already have one or more children (Abortion in U.S.). If birth control is so easy to get why don’t people just go get some? Well go watch some news or go drive by a woman's health clinic. Clinics are being shut down or not even opened due to pressure from different pro-life groups. Contractors working on building clinics have been threatened w... ... middle of paper ... ...n Laws." Insurance Coverage for Contraception State Laws. National Conference of State Legislatures, Feb. 2012. Web. 07 Apr. 2014. "Locations." Womens Med. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Apr. 2014. http://www.womensmed.com/abortion-care/safety/ Melby, Todd. "Cookies And Controversy." Contemporary Sexuality 38.4 (2004): 1-5. Academic Search Complete. Web. 8 Apr. 2014. Russo, Jennefer A., Kristin L. Schumacher, and Mitchell D. Creinin. "Antiabortion Violence In The United States." Contraception 86.5 (2012): 562-566. Academic Search Complete. Web. 8 Apr. 2014. Walker, Jade. "Texas Abortion Bill Filibustered By State Senator Wendy Davis Is Dead." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 26 June 2013. Web. 10 Apr. 2014 Woodbury, Adalia. "Republicans Have Launched 694 Attacks on Women's Reproductive Rights in 3 Months." PoliticusUSA. N.p., 13 Apr. 2013. Web. 10 Apr. 2014.

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