Male birth control

I found an article on "Where's the male birth control pill", that caught my attention. I guess there are many women who want a break from being the one in charge of preventing pregnancy. I never really thought of it before, but those shots do feel like a good punch to the arm, the pills are way too easy to forget, and a diaphragm??? I don't think so. Not to mention all the side effects and possible dangers that come with the drugs. I'm not big on drugs to begin with; I won't even take a cold or allergy pill unless I am really suffering. Being irritated with birth control isn't really the reason that title grabbed my attention though. I have 3 young boys, but they won't be young forever. If I had teenage girls, I could take them every 3 months and make sure they have their shot, along with all the sex education available, and begging them to wait until they are older. With boys, all I will be able to do is put a box of condoms where they can get to it without having to go through the embarrassment of asking me first. I don't think it's fair that most people think its the boys that need to be watched out for (thinking of the saying if you have a boy you only need to worry about 1, but if you have a girl, you have to worry about all of the boys) That's not a fair statement! It takes two to tango, many girls are just as frisky as guys. Anyway, the reason it is so difficult to come up with a male birth control is because men produce about 1 thousand sperm per second, while women only produce one egg per month. A woman only needs a hormone to convince her body it is pregnant to stop producing more. The birth control options for men that are being tested come out to be effective 2/3 of the time, or at max 90%; it is just nowhere near what it needs to be. If they do manage to master this though, the application is much easier than what women deal with. They simply rub a gel into their skin on their chest or even arms, and it gets absorbed through the skin.

For women, there are plenty of birth control options on the market. The combo pill can ease pre-menstrual symptoms, and it supposedly helps prevent ovarian and uterine cancer. In a recent study, the longer the pill is taken, the more protection it gives, protection against ovarian cancer is supposed to last about 30 years after a woman stops taking the pill; which can be taken all the way up to menopause. One of the best things I think they have done is making the morning after, or plan B pill available to young people with no trouble attached. I hope this will greatly lessen the number of abortions out there. A baby can start to feel at only 6 weeks, just because people don't want to acknowledge their responsibility shouldn't give them the right to kill a baby with feelings. There are so many options! If birth control is forgotten, use the morning after pill, if pregnancy occurs, there will be someone out there wanting to adopt a newborn baby. People are sickening!

There is a place in Joplin, LifeChoices, that helps young people, or anyone who needs help with pregnancy options, support and services such as ultrasounds, and volunteer doctors. They also give free std testing, and plan B pills.