Birth Control – Choosing Between The Lesser of Evils

As a society, we are very lucky to have access to birth control and to be able to decide when or if we want to have children. The issue is that, for many people, birth control is less than ideal.

Be it a pill or an IUD, these contraception options act primarily by altering the hormone levels in your body, which can make you emotional, irritable, and sometimes feel as though you are not in control of your own state of being. Not to mention the slew of health risks that are associated with these medications.

For some, a copper IUD can increase bleeding and amplify the pain from natural periods, which at times can be incapacitating. Then there are the classic condoms, which can be inconvenient and risky at best. Of course, abstinence is a possibility, but it's not always preferable.

All this to say that none of these options are ideal and it can feel crushing to think that you must suffer with one of these choices for a huge chunk of your life, particularly when you have a heightened sensitivity to some of these symptoms. So the question is, given that these are all the options we have, how do we make the choice?