Birth Control Pill

Society will seldom be stuck in one place or mindset for an extended period of time. People, cultures, the economy, norms and regulations, laws and the expansion of the generations and their beliefs, all affect how a society is run. If a country is introduced to modern technology and scientific discoveries, it will ultimately alter what they believe to be normal or expected of its citizens; if it is not, it will not advance in the race to be better. Contraceptives, such as the popular condoms or birth control pill, have greatly impacted fertility rates, the family dynamics and the meaning and purpose of a traditional role dedicated to women. Abortion as well has protected women from having their lives interrupted by unexpected, unplanned problems

The cost of pregnancy prevention was drastically reduced when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the nearly 100%-effective birth control pill (the Pill) in 1960. Whereas in developing countries, contraceptives are difficult to obtain due to restrictions based on gender roles, socio-economic status and cultures and their beliefs. Population over the years has been increasing specifically in developing countries, due to the high mortality rate and need to keep procreating. Our planet, already staggering under 6.5 billion people, is expecting to add another 2 billion by 2030, and perhaps 2 billion beyond that by 2050. Nearly all of them will be born in developing nations. This rising population could be controlled more if ways to prevent pregnancies were less expensive and were accepted throughout society’s norms. Family dynamics and roles are ever-changing and because of this, there is no traditional family sense. Nuclear families are a modern-day concept that mostly resides in developed countries such as Canada and the USA, but in developing countries the family is made up of cousins, aunts and uncles and grandparents: the extended family. Giving women the option of contraception is the single most important factor in achieving the "demographic transition"

Abortion, although illegal in most countries, is still present in today’s society. Canada has a strict law forbidding abortion meaning women who are desperate travel to countries where abortion is done in unsanitary, illegal clinics. At least twenty women leave Alberta every week, spending up to a thousand dollars in medical and hospital fees and travelling expenses. It is a wildly known concept that the male gender is favoured over the female one, so in certain countries abortion rates are a lot higher because females are seen as a nuisance, whereas males are seen as the inheritors. Although this helps steady the stream of population, it creates an upheaval of the male population and an absence of the female one. Latin America and the Caribbean have the highest annual rate of abortion of any world region, with 44 per 1,000 women of reproductive age, compared with 36 in Asia, and 17 in northern America. Abortion influences the family structure because it affects the relationships between couples, siblings, and to the rest of the family. Specifically, under the lenses of cultures and religious beliefs, if a woman is discovered to have or planning to have an abortion they are looked at differently because it goes against their faith, which in turn affects their position within the family. It is sometimes seen as an act of rebelliousness or mistrust in God’s plan to have sex before marriage