...Should birth control be available without a prescription? 1 in every 4 teenage girls ages 15-19 are pregnant, 22% across the us, but pharmacists could help these young women.(https://www.cdc.gov/teenpregnancy/about/index.htm) Birth control should be available without a prescription because the rate of teenage pregnancies would drop, costs of contraceptives would go down, and birth control has so many more uses than for preventing pregnancy. Although birth control is dependent on the person taking it, meaning you should see a doctor before just using one. Birth control is a pill that prevents pregnancy, a proven method that is 91% effective against pregnancy.(https://www.cdc.gov/teenpregnancy/about/index.htm) The teens deserve to have the option to have birth control or not. The teens will continue to have sex regardless but we need to help them prevent a big mistake at such a young age. But you must take the pill everyday, about the same time, or else it may not work. It may take some dedication to keep to the regimen....
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...“In the United States, over ten million women use oral contraceptives, or birth control pills” (“Topic Overview: Birth Control”). The birth control pill is becoming more available. In a couple of states, it is available without a prescription. There is a debate going on about whether it should be provided to teenagers or not. The birth control pill can be the cause of negative side effects, can be used as a contraceptive, and to help with things other than be used as a contraceptive. The birth control pill can cause some negative side effects. Some side effects are more common, and some are very rare. “"Hormonal birth control is not without risk," Daniels says, who adds that she thinks over-the-counter birth control, available without a physician's oversight, is "ridiculous""(Watts). She says this because, you should have a physician look over you and your family history to see if you would have problems with the medication. Some patients have trouble with nausea, fatigue, mood changes, and blood clots. Other common side effects are bleeding and breast tenderness. A few people, in rare...
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...Time for Off-the-Shelf Birth-Control Pills?” Elisabeth Rosenthal wonders if the time is ripe for a new government approach to oral contraceptives. When a federal judge recently ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make the morning-after pill available to women of all ages without a prescription, the ruling was a political embarrassment for the Obama administration and unleashed protests from abortion foes and abstinence advocates. But that controversy may look like a tempest in a teapot compared with a broader and no less heated discussion that is roiling the medical community: should birth-control pills of any type require a doctor’s prescription? Or should they be available, like Tylenol, on pharmacy shelves? Last December the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released an official position paper concluding that the time had come for birth-control pills to be sold over the counter. It was the first time the group had endorsed such sales, concluding that scientific evidence suggested that the practice was safe and calling it “a potential way to improve contraceptive access and use, and possibly decrease the unintended pregnancy rate.” After all, oral contraceptives have been available in the United States for more than half a century, and few medicines have been so thoroughly vetted. Despite some catchy new brand names, the pills I took 25 years ago are essentially the same as those my daughter takes today. If anything, pills have become safer because...
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...Case Study: Problem Statement- To control the population explosion in Bangladesh a non-profit organization Population Services International started with a project, SMP(Social Marketing Project) funded by another welfare body USAID. Under this project PSI introduced 2 birth control products in Bangladesh: Raja Condoms for Men and Maya Oral Contraceptive pills for females. Both products were marketed using the same Social Marketing Strategy where direct contact was made with the customers to educate them about family planning, birth control measures and make available birth control products at subsidized price. . Initially The 2 products experienced a good response with increasing sales, but later the sales of Raja condoms continued increasing and the sales of Maya contraceptive pills decreased drastically by 43.6% from 1980 to 1983 whereas Raja condoms experienced a growth of 95.5% in the same period. Objective of the study: This situation us with a case to understand why a similar strategy for 2 products, both aimed at preventing unwanted child birth could result in such different outcomes. This understanding will allow us to develop solutions to increase the sales of Maya Contraceptive pills. Strengths of the Marketing Strategy for both- * Creating a demand for the birth control products by spreading awareness about the importance of birth control through a vast network of field workers and by extensive marketing through radio, billborads, tshirts etc. * Making...
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...Different Types of Birth Control The topic that is up for discussion now will be birth control. I have just come across a life changing situation in my life in which I had to make a choice. I am a proud father of my soon to be 16 year old daughter. She has been having bad cramps and pain every month due to her menstrual cycle for the last 2 years. My wife and I have finally gotten to the point of deciding that she should be put on birth control. Now as a man the only birth control I know is the “Pill”. As I was doing research I have come to find out that I am so lost about the different types of birth control, the pros and cons, as well as the cost of each. After reading this report as a woman you should be a little bit wiser and as a guy this will blow your mind and greatly increase your knowledge on the subject. The most common birth control out there is the Combination Pill also known as Estrostep Fe, LoEstrin 1/20. Yasim, Yaz etc… This birth control mainstay is 99% effective against pregnancy when taken around the same time every day. It is also known for easing hot flashes and restoring regular period’s case in point my daughter. Now if you are a smoker and 35 or older the estrogen may cause dangerous blood clots. Also those that suffer from migraines should not use this because it may trigger them to reoccur. Now this product is relativity low cost of $15-$50 a month, depending on the type. Many health and family planning clinic sell birth control pills for less. The Progestin-only...
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...Birth Control: Availability to Teens. Many teenagers today are very sexually active and take the risk that comes with sexual intercourse. Education is our number once source in getting sexual information out to our teens: “We have got to start educating our teenagers by introducing the ABC's for sexual education. "A-abstinence; B-be faithful; C-latex condoms." (Rosenthal 113). A type of contraceptive, also called birth control, is to do just that: control birth. Teen and teen births are greatly rising over the years due to lack of education, contraceptives, and finances. Teenagers now days do not wait till a certain age to become sexually active, more and more teens are starting at a younger age. Whether they are having sex or engaging in another form of sexual activity. “The principle behind age-of-consent law is that teens below a certain age are not mature enough to make an intelligent decision about engaging in sexual activity. Twenty-six states set the age of consent for medical making decisions at twelve years of age, yet no state sets the age sexual consent at less than sixteen. Some states provide no provisions for sexual relations between teens of the same age, provided that they are older than twelve, but there is always a penalty if one of the partners is a certain number of years older. Teens are no better prepared to make decisions about their medical health; so then the school or other public authority should inform the parents. Supporters of the lower age...
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...1960 Time Capsule Vickie Canzenza Kaplan University The first of the five items that were found in the 1960 time capsule was a newspaper with “Kennedy Assassinated” on the first page. http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2011/nov/22/jfk-assassination-tragedy-world-archive Late in his brief term of a thousand days, Kennedy took up the civil rights issue because of the increased in violence in some of the southern states. He called for increased federal power so that voting rights could be enforced. The major civil rights acts included public accommodations opening and an end to job discrimination. (Salem, 2009) After the Bay of Pigs incident he became “hard line,” by appointing militant anticommunists such as John McCone as CIA director and General Curtis LeMay as commander of the Air Force. He also insisted that western powers remain in West Berlin. (Salem, 2009) The major event of Kennedy’s foreign policy arose in 1962, when Khrushchev tried to establish nuclear missiles in Cuba. Kennedy used information and ideas from his task force and his advisers and blockaded Cuba and to threaten Khrushchev, Khrushchev then withdrew the missiles. (Salem, 2009) He was interested in “peace as a process,” and in 1963, the United States and the Soviet Union ended the nuclear threat. Kennedy listened to advisers who insisted that the United States should send troops to Vietnam to show the South Vietnamese army how to fight, even though skeptical, Kennedy...
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...major roles in health care. Women are often the decision makers for their family when it relates to health. Compared to men, women have greater needs within the health care system. Women also have to face the challenges of child birth and all the health concerns that may be associated with giving birth. In addition, women face challenges of being the head-of-household, single mothers, and financial decision makers. The choice of becoming pregnant is a decision women of all ages are making daily. In cases where birth control has failed or protection is not used Emergency Contraception is available. Emergency contraception (EC)-- also known as the “morning after pill,” is a form of contraception that can be used shortly after sexual intercourse to prevent unintended pregnancy(Kaiser, 2010). EC is not intended to be used as a regular form of birth control. EC is a pill that is used to prevent unwanted pregnancy before it happens rather than later when an abortion may be considered. EC was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1999 for use with a doctor’s prescription (Food and Drug Administration, 2010). Progestin-only pills Plan B and its generic brand Next Choice are the only two kinds of EC pills available in the United States. These pills are the most effective when they are taken directly after intercourse. EC...
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...Contraception’s PSY/265 Professor Rosa Federico-Ochoa April 13, 2014 Contraception Tina and Dan are considering various birth control methods. They are a newly married couple who practiced abstinence before marriage and plan on starting their family within a year. Choose possible methods of contraception for the couple and discuss the advantages and disadvantages they would need to consider at this point in their lives. With Tina and Dan there are many methods that they can use for birth control. I do not really think if they want to start a family within a year that birth control pills would be a wise choice. As once you start taking the pill you will have to be off of them for so long to get them out of your system to conceive. One of the methods they could use would be the diaphragm. This is a shallow cup or dome made of rubber that should be used with a spermicide. This is inserted by the women and taken out by the women so she can stop using it any time she want’s to become pregnant and there would be no wait time. The advantage with this is there is no wait time on getting pregnant and it can be used as needed. Some of the disadvantages would be the failure rate is has with pregnancy or the problem of having to insert it before intercourse which could kill the mood. Then you have the contraceptive sponge which is similar to the diaphragm as it is inserted and does not make a person wait to become pregnant. The disadvantages would be that 1 in 20 that...
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... | |2013/11/18 | TO: Philip Harvey FROM: Zhijie Bai RE: Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh DATE: 11/18/2013 As part of the population control program in Bangladesh, PSI introduced two products - Raja condoms and Maya contraceptive pills. Unlike traditional marketing, PSI was involved in societal marketing. Over the time the sales of Raja increased tremendously and we were successful in grabbing a major part of market share in Bangladesh. But in case of Maya the sales started declining after a period. Even though we were selling Maya at a cheaper price, the competitors with higher price became successful in the market. The profit margin earned by retailers and wholesalers was very low for Maya compared to similar products in the market so they did not promote sales of the product. Earlier when Maya was introduced, it was a successful in terms of sales. But as time passed, people developed various bad notions about the pill. They associated the pill with birth control, considered it as an inferior drug because of its low price & the side effects caused by external factors were also related to it. Even the doctors advised not to use Maya because they thought it...
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...A young couple came into my office today to discuss their birth control options. She is 24 years old and her husband is 26 years old. They have one child, who is now six months old. They have been using basal body temperature method for pregnancy prevention, however, they are not satisfied with method as it has caused emotional struggles. They do not want another child for about eighteen months. I explained the different forms of oral hormone birth control options and discovered that birth control pills were causing break-through bleeding therefore were discontinued. I reviewed other forms of contraception with my client. Although still hormone based, there are other options for contraception such as the shot or implant. I warned that both...
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...Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther king Jr., Albert Einstein and Princess Diane all these great people could have ceased to exist if their mother’s had an abortion. Imagine the civil rights movement, science or humanitarianism without them here. Pro-life is the best way to treat conception because today’s children can be tomorrow’s contributors to society. Over 46 million abortions were done from 1973 because of the Roe decision. In the decades after young women have realized abortion could have been the decision of their mothers as well this belief is as so known as the survival of abortion according to Hanz Zeiger a student at Hillsdale College and author of Reagan’s Children. The babies born between the 1981 and 1989 are “standing up for Roe’s babies” says Zeiger. With every abortion our generation is fighting back with more young women choosing pro-life instead of abortion. Abortion comes at a high price to the well being of a woman’s physical and mental health. According to groups like National Right to Life’s American Victims of Abortion “Women deserve better”. The post abortion mental torment can prove to be life changing experience causing severe insecurity and guilt. Abortion in many causes is more strenuous on the body then going though the entire pregnancy. According to the studies of Glamour magazine young women are choosing life more then abortion tactics. The survey says women from the age 18-29 are more in favor of pro life. The polls suggest that...
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...Unit 9 Final Project Christina Martinez SS211 – 2080898 November 18, 2014 On this date of November 16th, 2325 I am writing to document the findings of a time capsule with the date inscribed on it of December 31st 1969. The time capsule was discovered in Washington, D.C. at exactly 2:36 p.m. by myself and my highly skilled archaeological team. This is such an amazing discovery. We have been taught over the years how important the 1960’s were and how they brought about many changes in our nation leading up to its present day success. Inside the time capsule we have found a newspaper article dated February 2nd, 1960 with the headline “A&T Students Launch ‘Sit-Down’ Demand for Service at Downtown Lunch Counter”. (International Civil Rights Center & Museum, 2014) The next item within the capsule was a small package labeled Enovid and appears to one of the first brands of oral contraceptives. Continuing to look further into the capsule we then found 2 tickets from the Washington Coliseum with a date of February 10th 1964 featuring The Beatles. Also included among these items was a flyer dated August 28th 1963 with the heading “March on Washington”. The last item we removed from the time capsule was a small patch with an eagle on it landing on what appears to be the moon with the words “Apollo 11”. I will now go onto write a little history on these items as well as their importance to us in the present day. In 1865...
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...The Pill, is prescribed by a clinician, taken daily at the same time and is 91-99.7% effective against pregnancy. The Ring, is a small flexible ring that you insert deep into the vagina for three weeks and taken out for the fourth week. It releases combined hormones that protect against pregnancy for one month. It is 91-99.7% effective. The Patch (Ortho Evra) is a thin plastic patch that you place on the skin of the buttocks, stomach, upper outer arm, or upper torso once a week for three weeks in a row. A new patch is placed every week, no patch is used on the fourth week. Combined hormones are released that are 91-99.7% effective against pregnancy for one month. None of these methods protect against sexually transmitted...
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...Rebuttal Paper Dayna Kielau BCOM/275 January 16, 2012 Plan B One Step is an emergency contraceptive pill that prevents the fertilization of an egg after unprotected sex. The FDA wanted Plan B One Step to be made available without a prescription to all ages. The Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius overruled this. “The result of Sebelius' action is that Plan B will remain available to women ages 17 and older without a prescription, but those 16 and younger will still need to see a doctor first in order to get the product.” (www.npr.org) The decision was also backed up by President Obama. In a news conference Obama stated “I will say this, as the father of two daughters. I think it is important for us to make sure that we apply some common sense to various rules when it comes to over-the-counter medicine. And as I understand it, the reason Kathleen made this decision was she could not be confident that a 10-year old or an 11-year old goes into a drugstore, should be able – alongside bubble gum or batteries – be able to buy a medication that potentially, if not used properly, could end up having an adverse effect. And I think most parents would probably feel the same way.” (www.npr.org) “As doctors and researchers have repeatedly stated, ample research shows Plan B to be safe for women of all ages and appropriate for over-the-counter access. It is deeply disappointing that this administration would repeat the mistakes of the previous one,” said...
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