Good Essay On Modern Birth Control

On 4th of February 2015, a report of the study by Dr. Howard Sobel and his associates was released. The report states that more than 15 million unwanted pregnancies could be prevent if women could have access to birth controls and use them as prescribed. According, the report, unwanted pregnancy have a devastating effects on the women as this could cause some to lose jobs, dropped out of school, get infected or be get disabled. Dr. Howard Sobel assert that, the use of the modern birth control such as the intrauterine devices , implants, sterilization, condoms, injectable and oral contraceptives and breast feeding reduces the vulnerability of the women getting unwanted pregnancy (Preidt, 2015).
However, many women are not familiar or have inadequate information on most of the modern birth control measures. Thus, they wrongly use these modern methods hence increasing their risk of getting pregnant. On the other hand, majority are concern with the safety and the side effects of the of the modern birth methods. Moreover, some oppose the birth control due to culture or religious believes while others understatement the risk of getting pregnant (Preidt, 2015). Therefore, the majority result into using the old methods of withdraw and timing of the intercourse which are not effective in preventing unwanted pregnancy.
Although the government has allow the use of the Birth control and nurses are required to offer education to women on how to use them, the issue has remain controversial. The side effects and the religious believes (especially among the Catholics) on the modern birth control, has put the nurses in a strange situation. It would be against the law for a nurse who is against the modern birth control to refuse to offer education, treatment or medication to a patient on modern birth control methods. On the other hand, it will be also be unethical to advice a patient to use modern birth control knowing the patient health could be in danger. Furthermore, it is ethically right for every nurse to practice their religious mandate hence it would not be right to force the nurses to practice what they don’t believe in. Thus, although the health policy on the on the birth control is meant to alleviate the lives of many women, its implementations has raised many health and ethical concerns which needs to be address by all the stakeholders urgently (Preidt, 2015). Since, it has put nurses on dilemma as to how they should implement the policy on the birth control

References

Preidt, R. (2015). Modern Birth Control Methods Could Avoid 15 Million Unwanted Pregnancies: Report - MedicineNet. Retrieved from http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=186710