The Plan B Pill

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Angeleca Liu English 101 Kennan Knudson November 29th, 2015 The Plan-B Pill was created with the intention of giving women and couples the power to choose how they wanted to proceed with their lives. Its applications in the prevention of unwanted pregnancies has made it a global necessity. This pill has drastically changed today’s society and how we choose to live in it. Through the Mcluhan lens, the message that this pill is sending out is received differently by many people. In Understanding Media, McLuhan suggested that technologies are the messages themselves, not the content that they carry (McLuhan, 8). His insight was that the characteristics of a medium are the ones that affect the society, not the content delivered (McLuhan, 8). He used the light bulb, as an illustration, saying that a light bulb may not have the same content as a newspaper, but it has a social effect, in that it enables people to eliminate space and time factors …show more content…

For starters, its abuse has led to an increase in the number of people having unprotected sex, even when they have the ability to use protection There has also been an increase in the number of people contracting sexually transmitted infections (STDs), which consequently translate into a societal problem. For rape victims, opting for the Pill instead of going to a hospital for screening after the act reduces their chances of getting the help that they need. Additionally, the authority and rights of parents to protect their children from negative consequences of taking Plan B Pills are taken away when these pills are made so readily available to teens. Moreover, availing these pills to ladies of all ages has led to a disconnect in parent-teen and doctor-teen communication, since teens can just buy them by themselves, making it hard for their parents and doctors to advise them on the moral and medical consequences of sexual

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