10 reasons we love birth control

1. Birth control is medicine.

Birth control is medicine. (It is used to treat conditions such as endometriosis, PCOS, dysmenorrhea, and acne!).

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2. Birth control prevents teen pregnancies.

Federal funding for contraception has helped avoid 1.3 million unintended pregnancies as of 2015, researchers found, and when it comes to teens, the impact is dramatic. Teen pregnancy rates drop sharply with access to free birth control

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3. Birth control is good for our sex lives.

“Having more orgasms has been linked to greater heart health, for everyone.”

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4. Birth control helps us achieve our goals at any age.

Attitudes around the importance of birth control differ by age group, with younger women more likely to see birth control as essential to achieving equality while women aged 30-44 more likely to list birth control as essential to achieving professional goals.

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5. Birth control is a life-long friend.

On average, people with uteri may be on birth control for 30 years of their life.

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6. Birth control can help treat acne.

Using a birth control that contains estrogen and progestin helps tamp down oil production, which is the root cause of acne.”

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7. Birth control puts you in control of your cycle.

Benefits of skipping your period using birth control include: symptom management and cost savings.

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8. Birth control is covered.

Having access to no-copay birth control saved people in the U.S. $483 million in 2013, averaging at $269 in savings per person.

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9. Birth control is safe.

There’s no evidence that taking hormonal birth control over the long term has any ill effects on fertility. A 2018 review looked at 22 studies done between 1985 and 2017 that all looked at people’s fertility after stopping birth control. Eighty-three percent of them got pregnant within 12 months, and the researchers concluded that there was no evidence that contraception harmed fertility.

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10. Birth control gives us the freedom to choose.

Contraception allows us to choose  if and when we want to be pregnant, and to pursue educational and career goals.

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