Explain three world arguments for birth control and two world arguments against birth control
Introduction
Birth control can be defined as techniques or tools that are employed to avert pregnancy. The concept has been a major topic for debate in contemporary world. Proponents of birth control give their views to justify the exercise while the opponents strongly suggest the reasons to dismiss the practice. The intent of this paper is therefore to explore at least three arguments for the idea and two arguments that seek to oppose the same.
There have been a number of arguments put forth by various people across the globe to justify and encourage birth control practices. The first world argument is that birth control is an effective tool for population control. Proponents of this idea suggest that overpopulation in the long term results into other development problems. Consequently, they suggest that the only way to avert such a problem is to control the birth rates of human beings. Notably, some countries like china have adopted birth control measures like the one child policy, to ensure that the government is able to monitor the population growth rate of the country. According to them therefore, if the world is to escape problems of overpopulation, birth control should be highly encouraged.
Another world argument for birth control comes from the liberal perspective. According to the liberalism proponents, everyone should be allowed to exercise their reproductive freedom. In this case, women should be allowed to have control over their own bodies. Consequently, they should be allowed to choose when they want to conceive or otherwise take measures to avoid conception. As such, no other person can control the body of another. They further justify this by arguing that prohibiting birth control will deny women healthcare profits at the same time increase abortion rates.
The last world argument put forth for birth control is hedonism. This is a universal spread of the idea that people can freely engage in informal sexual practices without fear of any consequences or taking responsibility for their actions. This has for example created room for early sex practices and sex outside marriage. Proponents of the same feel that the whole ideology permits them to exercise birth control.
Two World arguments against birth control
Across the globe, another group of people have strongly come up to dismiss the idea of birth control. The first argument they give is on moral grounds. It is argued that birth control practices only work to encourage promiscuity and immorality, which is ethically unacceptable. Consequently, it is said that the whole idea of birth control encourages sexual practices for motives other than reproduction. As result, this has increased incidences of sex outside marriages, prostitution and cheating. This idea has been strongly backed by the religious fields for example the Catholic Church, who have strongly spoken out against the whole practices of birth control. They support the argument that such a practice is not only morally wrong, but also biblically unacceptable.
The second world argument against birth control is that the practice encourages abortion. Proponents of this argument posit that some of the birth control practices function by stopping the implantation and progress of an already fertilized egg. They suggest that this is just same as abortion. They give an example of the emergency contraceptive pill which hinders the development of a fertilized egg. According to them if abortion is unacceptable, then birth control should as well be discouraged.
