What would happen to society if birth control were to disappear tomorrow?
What roles would men and women have? Would marriage be more necessary? How would women manage both families and careers, without access to reliable birth control? What would happen to society, to the economy, etc?
Rio, vasectomies, tubal ligations and sterilization implants are birth control, they are permanent forms of birth control. Abortion and infanticide is also another form of birth control, one that I imagine will always be an option.
Rio, vasectomies, tubal ligations and sterilization implants are birth control, they are permanent forms of birth control. Abortion and infanticide is also another form of birth control, one that I imagine will always be an option.
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No more *****
….Lots of sexually frustrated men But on the whole, we’ll all be happier 
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Abortion rates would be off the charts.
As for the Christians, I would *hope* nothing would change for them, that they would still be waiting for marriage to have sex, so they wouldn’t have to worry about it.
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People start pulling out
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Well, it would have to be one of three things: a) a sudden massive spike in reproductive responsibility provoked out of necessity, b) a massive spike in abortion rates, and/or c) an enormous and uncontrolled population boom to be leveled off only by starvation and/or pandemic.
My guess is, some kind of mixture of all three.
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I don’t imagine my life would change much.
*cries in to his pint*
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More blow jobs, I think society would benefit
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I imagine it would look a lot like the days before birth control, only more dysfunctional, since there would be far less emphasis on prescribed gender roles by that point. That would be bad for the economy, since they’d likely be spending a lot more on welfare and child care initiatives. Also, there would be a very significant jump in the numbers of men and women seeking vasectomies and tubal ligations, along with abortions.
EDIT: Well, if you’re talking about absolutely everything, then just eliminate that last sentence.
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What would happen to society?
It would get bigger, and less happy.
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Yeah, society would Jumbo, not you though : )
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Marriage doesn’t really matter now.
There would be millions of lazy females trying to feed off the government.
Oh wait. They already are. Keep working! Millions of people on welfare are depending on you!
Yah, abortion would always be an option. Not that I condone it. But, people have been doing homemade remedies for that for a while.
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lots of unplanned pregnancies because most will be like “i will pull it out”
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I can’t speak for everyone but… I’d never have *** again =D
Anyone know if birthcontrol was created by a man or a woman? I’m curious now… I’m guessing man but it could go either way. Though men are more wired to be in favor of *** without consequence and women (used to be) more cautious.
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Well considering the the birth rate is already higher than death rate, Our problem would be where would we all go? Not to mention the demands in jobs. New businesses. Um, food would be need in large quantities and more often.
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I think that there would be a lot more abortions, first of all. Second, I think that the government would end up being much more efficient at tracking down dead-beat parents, simply because poverty rates would be higher due to all the single parents. People would demand it.
I don’t think there would be more people married, I think there would be a lot more teen pregnancies though. And unfortunately it is generally people from poorer, less-educated families that end up with teen pregnancies, so there would be a lot less upward mobility in groups, as well as a lot of middle-class people ending up impoverished. Alcoholism and depression would both increase as people become locked into families they never wanted. Imagine turn of the century Ireland, everywhere!
All in all that would probably f*uck over a lot of people. Birth control is the most important invention of the 20th century, we’ve come a long way in modernizing society because of it.
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There would be no ***.
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It would **** because with birth control, I can go three months without getting a period, but it also makes my cramps worse. Other than that, I don’t think things would change much. Birth control is rarely taken to actually prevent pregnancy, it taken more to prevent periods.
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well the blacks and mexicans don’t use it anyway so it won’t effect them. White people would have more kids and become the majority again. It would probably be better in the long run. People wait too long to have kids and as a result they are more likely to have birth defects and are unhealthy. People should have kids in their 20’s instead of waiting too late and adopting which seems to be the new trend.
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There would be more babies, and I suppose more self-induced abortions.
Women would not be able to manage to have both careers and children, if they were continuously getting pregnant. They would have the option of celibacy or continuous childbearing. Women who were really serious about careers would stay single and celibate (this was considered normal for career women until fairly recently anyway).
However, I can’t really see how birth control could ever ‘disappear’. I mean, if nothing else, the option of premature withdrawl, which while not 100% safe is fairly effective, is always going to be available, even if artifical contraceptive devices were for some reason unavailable. And there are various natural substances that can be used as fairly effective spermicides. The ancient Egyptians used honey for instance, and the ancient Greeks used olive oil, which apparently is very effective (Marie Stopes conducted experiments with olive oil as a contraceptive in the 1920s, and found it to be 100% effective). And vaginal plugs made of various substances have always been around too.
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The most obvious consequences I can see are an increase in illegal abortions, more self-inductions, higher numbers of suicides, more shotgun marriages, and more babies being abandoned. It will also cause the foster care system to be flooded with even more unwanted children. It will be even more difficult to find homes for hard-to-place children because there are more desirable babies available and most people will take those before they will even consider an older child or one that has handicaps.
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In a span of just 10 yrs, we would be inundated with disease. A plague like we have never seen before would arise and then the population would be controlled by “natural” methods ie pestilence. World wide pandemic isn’t strong enough words for what would happen.