Plan B and Society

This blog post is suppose to be about something that's different from my perspective of a certain issue, and I think i'm suppose to go through the A, B's, and C's of this different perspective in a nice manner...if I read that right?

We all know what the 'day after' pill is also known as Plan B. The pill is for females, mainly with the intent of taking it the 'morning after' that way they don't get pregnant if they forgot to take their birth control pill, if they were sexually assaulted, or if they forgot to use protection.

All of the sexual technologies associated with females and controlling/having a decision to have a baby is put within our grasp for once. The Plan B pill empowers women to have a choice, which altogether gives us more rights in society. The whole controversy with the 'Plan B' pill is the notion that it can be used to terminate a pregnancy, which is known to the rest of the world as aborting a baby. Plan B comes with moral and religious concerns, even though the way it works doesn't exactly work like an abortion. Plan B can prevent or delay ovulation, make it so that the egg and the sperm don't meet, interfere with the fertilization process, and prevent implantation of a fertilized egg. To many, this last definition spells 'abortion' but to others it doesn't.

Seeing this issue from a different view is different. I'm all for having kids, however there are some exceptions where I think abortion is appropriate. Babies are one of the most precious things and being able to have them is a gift in itself. The Plan B pill and birth control pills often fall in the women's issues category...guys are always left out of the picture. To me it only became recent that men could walk out of everything and leave women responsible for everything...which says culture is changing. I mean everyone watches Teen Mom and 99% of the time the babies father isn't in the picture when the baby is born. Plan B says that having kids should be up to both parents, whereas 50 years ago you made a baby with your husband and you had to have it...

Plan B changed everything. People must understand that situations have changed, society has changed and that having a choice about whether or not to have a baby is within a woman's grasp.