Happy Birthday, Birth Control!

Admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:05:46 +0000

Yasmin Generic may be a relatively new birth control pill on the market, but did you know that we just celebrated the pill’s fiftieth birthday! It seems like it was just yesterday (okay, a thousand years ago) that women were told to eat bees if they didn’t want to conceive (seriously). Now, using birth control has become a normal part of growing up. Whether you get your first prescription at age 15 because you’ve got acne that won’t go away, or if you decide to be sexually adventurous in college, or because…well…3 children is just enough for you and you’re ready to play it safe—birth control plays a large role in the lives of women and their families all over the world.

100 million women around the world take the pill every day—don’t you wonder what’s contained in these tiny little hormone pills? Let’s look at some facts about the popular birth control Yasmin to learn more about how this miracle drug works and who it works best for.

Drospirenone – This is the active ingredient of Yasmin. It’s a chemical hormone called a progestin that works to prevent ovulation in women. If you’re not ovulating, you can’t get pregnant.
Yasmin is recommended for girls and women over the age of 14 who menstruate.
You should take Yasmin at the same time every day. Since birth control pills affect your cycle, if you take the pill at the same time every day, it’ll help regulate your cycle.
Yasmin is 99% effective at preventing pregnancy.
Women who take Yasmin reduce their chances of getting endometrial or ovarian cancers.
Yasmin contains Spironolactone which can help clear up excess body and facial hair, as well as treat acne.
I hate when I see people buying name brand Yasmin in the drugstore. You can buy generic Yasmin online for super cheap—and it’s the exact same drug!

History of Birth Control

Admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:47:56 +0000

Can you imagine what life was like for women and men for that matter before birth control pills like Yasmin? The birth control pill has revolutionized sex and if we take a look back in time, we can see just to what degree. Before birth control, women had to rely on male withdrawal, and on crude infanticide and abortion. In 3000 B.C. condoms made from such materials as fish bladders, linen sheaths, and animal intestines. Later in 1500, the first spermicides were introduced which used condoms made from linen cloth sheaths and soaked in a chemical solution and dried before use. In 1873, the Comstock Act in the US prohibited ads, information, and distribution of birth control and allowed the postal service to confiscate birth control sold through the mail. Can you imagine? Finally in 1916, the amazing Margaret Sanger opened first birth control clinic in the US and the next year she was sentenced to jail for 30 days. But once she was released, she re-opened her clinic and continued to persevere through more arrests and prosecutions.

In 1938 a judge lifted the federal ban on birth control, and diaphragms became a popular method of birth control.

The world of the Pill began in 1950. Sanger now in her 80s underwrote the research to create the first human birth control pill. In 1960 the first oral contraceptive, Enovid, was marketed in the US as invented by Frank Colton. In the 1960’s, IUDs were manufactured and marketed in the US. Later in the decade, feminists challenged the safety of oral contraceptives as a result of confirmed serious health risks associated with it. This led to changes in the pill’s formula. In the 80’s and 90’s hormonal birth control methods expanded to include implants and injectables and low-dose pills like Yasmin were introduced. Today we have choices! The hormonal patch, vaginal ring, new injectables, single rod implants, and even the morning after pill have freed women from the awful beginnings for birth control though barriers to access to reliable contraception still exists for women world-wide.

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Happy Birthday, Birth Control!

History of Birth Control