"Has the Sexual Revolution Been Good for Women? Yes" by Ann Patchett (Wall Street Journal)

Central Argument: The Sexual Revolution has done well to the women as they can now they can prevent unwanted pregnancies.

The sexual revolution made the idea of sex and other things related to it, like homosexuality, more open and accepted. With all this came unwanted pregnancies. But then the revolution also introduced many methods of preventions that helped reduce these pregnancies. It also legalized abortion in some countries. Women benefit the most from this as they are now able to choose when they want a responsibility of a child, or if they want it at all.

The sexual revolution also made more teenager of our age sexually active which increases the rate of teenage pregnancies. This has been one of the big issues in the United States in the recent years. The movie Juno is a good example of how teenagers get influenced and involve themselves in unprotected sex and in the end it’s the female that suffers. They are the ones who have to bear the society and also the responsibilities and the expenses. Introduction of simple prevention methods, like the use of condoms, can help such cases and make the state of such female teenagers better.

Just the other day in the school assembly a gentleman spoke about his experience of finding a woman in a street in Mumbai delivering a baby. She abandoned the baby three days after he was born as she was too poor to take responsibility him. This is common in India. There have been cases where new borns have been found in some public garbage can. When people don’t want a child, they should be able to choose not to have one. Naturally pregnencies just happen,  but it has become possible to terminate an unwanted pregnency with todays medicinal adancements and the sexual revolution. This not only benefits the women but also the unborn children who will be rejected after birth.

Reasons for terminating a pregnancy is not only an unplanned pregnancy but it can also be something like a deformed child. As the Emily Rapp in her article “"Rick Santorum, Meet My Son" says that she rather terminate a child who is deformed than to watch him not able to walk and talk properly. If we can find out that an unborn will not be able to survive for too long then there is no reason to give birth to it. It will just cause pain to the baby and its mother. Sometimes people can’t even afford to pay for a special child. As sexual revolution has legalised abortion in some countries, the lives of women have become a little better.

The sexual revolution has brough many positive things into the society. Before it, many families would take children as a liabily because they jut happened, but now with the introduction of so many methods of preventions and terminations people now have children when they really want to and love them because they always wanted them. They didn’t happen by accident. This way the parents and even the children are happy.