What are 3 major womens health issues that have changed in your lifetime and how?

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:41:46 +0000

Since the 1960s, many women's health issues have changed in the U.S. What are 3 and how have the effected you directly?

Well, I haven't been around since the 1960's, but one thing that has changed a lot just in the time I've been alive is contraception. We have a lot more options now than women did even a couple decades ago, and the pill has gotten much safer. The first pills had a huge amount of hormones in them and they had a lot of bad side effects. They were also very expensive. Now they have much fewer hormones in them so the side effects are nowhere near as bad as they would have been with the old pills, and they're very affordable–I pay $12/month for mine. Plus we have all kinds of other contraception options too–the ring, the shot, the implant, the patch, and all the barrier methods. Hormonal methods that we have today are much more effective than methods they had in the 1960's.

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What are 3 major womens health issues that have changed in your lifetime and how?