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Actually, I take birth control because otherwise my period will do incredibly nasty things....this started when I ended up in the ER because I was bleeding so much. I could deal with it, but that'd be 5 days of severe cramping, 2 days of going through way too many pairs of underwear and pants, and a whole lot of tylenol. I could get more graphic but that's graphic enough.

Any medicine you take alters the chemical balance in your body. Altering hormones to cure a medical problem is one thing. Healthy people don't bleed that badly, and acne may not be a huge health risk but it still is a concern (though bc is a bit extreme for that one). It isn't messing with normal bodily functions any more than tubes in the ear can fix an ear from what it is to what it should be. Altering hormones to cure nature is quite another. There is nothing unnatural about becoming pregnant after sex. Quite the opposite, if you repeatedly engage in sexual activity yet fail to become pregnant no matter how much you try, it indicates that you aren't as fertile as you're supposed to be.

Of course, how often does it take to use medicine as a last resort? Well...okay, I take that back. Most of the cases I hear of with pills being prescribed is by gynocologists to help with periods, and I hear a LOT of these, maybe it's because women are being more active in general with sports, careers, activities....think about how much female involvement in extracurriculars has risen in the past ten years. I dunno if that'd affect it, it's just an interesting thing and probably just coincidental. I'll go search for stats on that one, but I'm pretty sure that most of it is prescribed for (other than birth control of course) problems with menstruation.

Condoms do more in the way of free sex than pills, because condoms are much, much easier, and if you use it right, they can be more reliable...pills demand regularity. They also don't always react the right way in certain people. Pills and shots are costly, a pain in the butt (especially the shots xd ), and rely on scheduling...condoms can be used at any time. Also easier to obtain without parental involvement, for teens.

Planned parenthood has a lot to answer for. I'd rather my money go to other organizations that promote safe sex (though I'd much rather no promotion of sex, I know it'll go on, and safe sex is safer than unsafe sex. Or maybe it's just Darwinism ninja )

Well, the only acne medicene I haven't tried is the kind that like costs 400 dollars a month. I don't think any of the other crap works, it takes up a bunch of money, and birth control on insurance is free.

Nothing made my metabolism slow down. I generally don't complain about my weight because chick friends of mine get angry and say I should be happy being thin. I went from barely being between 105-110 and now I'm about 135.

I'd rather have my friend Desi on birth control than have a baby who I know she wouldn't be able to take care of and have to be subjected to her horrible mother. I think we need birthcontrol for people who aren't ready to be (Or in Desi's case isn't mentally healthy enough to be abstinant) to be abstinant and condoms for those who would get and spread STDs. I know a ton of people that have gotten STDs already neutral

i beleve that pro choice adn pro death are very different but since many ppl don't use pro death i clerify. the abortionists taht call tehmselve pro chioice are mis leading. ANd yes if yuo have to chose btw lifes you choses teh one more likly to servive. thats not abortion though.

Are you very athletic? Sometimes athletic girls that exersize a lot just don't get periods.

Firstly, I have a problem with the names of the sides. "Pro-Life" and "Pro-Choice" are too propagandized for my liking. I prefer "Pro-Abortion" and "Anti-Abortion."

I'm Anti-Abortion, but I have developed (or been given by Satan?) a rather confusing thought/perspective on it, which muddies things a bit: God knows everything. Even with our "free will", He knows what we're going to choose to do. Why would He give souls to children He knew would never have a chance to live? I can't see that He would.

While this doesn't excuse my behavior or choice in the matter, it does seem to excuse me from complaining or campaigning against the matter.

Dying is an eventuality for us all. A fetus is alive, it's just at a different stage of life. Does He deny souls to a newborn who will die in a few months? Weeks? Days? He knew the holocaust was coming, and slavery. Did he deny souls to Jews, Christians, and Colored people?

A lot of people who are prochoice argue that a fetus does not have a soul. Personally, I think that's not true at all. Only God really knows. But a fetus can experience life in the womb just as much as an infant outside of it does. It can hear, feel, taste. It's got favorite sounds and a preference on which hand it uses. It can smile, it can scream, it can hiccup, it can cough. If it was in a PVS, I might question it, but it isn't. It's a living human being in the womb.