Methods of Birth Control – Consider Your Options before Making a Call
There is no one-size-fits-all type of birth control method. There are several options available that are affordable, safe, and effective. And all these options fit different lifestyles, budgets, and situations.
Before you make a rash decision and consider the medical abortion pill as the only option, you should know what choices you have. When you are aware of the options that you have, you are more likely to make an informed choice.
Before we present to you the options, it is better to clarify the terms of birth control and abortion.
Birth control, in any form, natural, hormonal, or non-hormonal prevent concept. These contraceptive methods are used before you conceive, to prevent that from happening.
Abortion, on the other hand, is a method used to terminate a pregnancy after conception. A lot of women consider abortion as primary birth control but that is not exactly true.
Birth control is a method to prevent conception and abortion is the method to terminate a conception.
Here are some methods of birth control for your consideration:
- Hormonal methods like pills, patches, vagina rings. There are progesterone-only pills and injections also.
- IUD or intrauterine devices (copper and hormonal) can also be inserted to offer protection from pregnancy for quite many years. In a lot of cases, there is a use of IUD for abortion as well.
- Barrier methods like condoms, diaphragms, spermicides, cervical caps are also known to be effective methods of birth control.
- Sterilization methods like tubal litigation and vasectomy are also used by couples who do not wish to have children anytime in the future.
- Some natural methods of birth control are also practiced that include abstinence, the fertility awareness method (FAM), withdrawal, and also the lactational amenorrhea method (LAM).
