They may stop you from becoming pregnant or control when you do.
Birth control has many benefits. The two big ones are to Prevent pregnancy and to control your menstrual cycle.
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Depends if you want your parents to know your on it or not, but If you want to be discrete then you can go to a local Planned Parenthood or Clinic and ask for birth control they give you a special green card that gives you the benefits to get birth control without paying for it and they wont tell your parents.
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Birth control vaccines don't exist, but you can get birth control shots.
Yes, you can. While birth control is reliable, there is no birth control that is 100% effective.
Her activism in support of birth control was the reason she was controversial.
Birth control pills won't make any lasting change in your hormones; when you stop using them, you will return to your previous hormonal and menstrual pattern. While using the birth control pill, though, your hormone levels will become more even and predictable. For some women with abnormally low or high hormone levels, this use of birth control hormones can have significant disease-prevention benefits as well as prevention of unintended pregnancy.
Birth control is what is used to prevent unintended pregnancy, there are multiple different types of birth control that work in different ways, it is ignorant to say 'birth control' to mean one specific type of birth control. Without knowing what type of birth control you're referring to we cannot answer your question - some birth control does absolutely nothing to your hormones, some birth control completely shuts down your hormones.
"Contraceptive" and "birth control" are synonymous. All contraceptives are methods of birth control.
Birth control is not for weight control.
Abstinence Birth Control Implant Birth Control Patch Birth Control Pills Birth Control Shot - Depo-Provera Birth Control Sponge - Today Sponge Birth Control Vaginal Ring - NuvaRing Breastfeeding as Birth Control Cervical Cap Condom - male/female Diaphragm Fertility Awareness-Based Methods IUD Outercourse Spermicide Sterilization - tubal ligation/vasectomy Withdrawal Morning-After Pill is an option it is not a birth control pill but is Emergency Contraception.