let's put birth control back on the agenda

It was a busy week to me, and during this week I have read several TED talks. One of the most attractive talk is the one brought by Melinda Gates, the co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The talk is about Contraception, a controversial topic in recent year. Just as the talk told me that now a days, in terms of contraception issue, most governments and the society focus on women’s ability to control their birth rate instead of on the women themselves. This point of view gave a new aspect to look at the birth control policy.

When we are talking about birth control, the first place come to my mind is Africa and Asia, especially my home land China main land. In my country, the policy of birth control has been carried for 30 years, and the outcome is really amazing that we slowed down the pace of world population growth. The policy seems really effective, but during these years we just focused on the birth rate control. What we neglected the basic right of women, the freedom the will and the ability to control their future. Under the pressure of world population, we do need the birth control policy, but we should consider this problem in terms of humanity and feminism. Before the birth control, can we know the opinions of women first?

Many times we do a just thing, such as birth control, in a wrong way. As far as I know, in some outlying villages governments terrify women to use contraceptive methods. Although it is effective, it twisted the will of women! It violated the basic right of women! Why can not we just use a gentle way to do that? Why not just convey the opinion that give all the best to your child to them, I think, under the nature of mother it will be more effective. As far as I am concerned, we should do everything in the name of humanity!   

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