fucktoyprincess -> RE: Morning After birth control now available at 13 NYC Schools (9/24/2012 4:03:38 PM)
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I am feminist. I am pro birth control. I am pro abortion. With that said, I am also against teens having sex and teen pregnancy. So first line of attack is still sex education and strong advocacy for birth control. But, the reality is, when that fails, what are the recourses? It seems to me that to deal with unwanted pregnancy, morning after pills are surely a better alternative than the much riskier abortion procedure. I agree with others on this thread that the thing that is worrisome is that the Morning after pill should NOT be used as birth control and, of course, does not offer any std protection. The good news is that teen pregnancy and births to teen mothers are actually on a decline (although I would personally say the rates are still much higher than one would expect for an industrialized nation). Part of the reason for the decline is better sex education and the morning after pill, and, quite simply, the realization for a lot of young women that having children in their teens, or even in their 20s, is not desirable relative to the alternatives of finishing their education and starting a career. The goal should be to make teenage pregnancy rates as low as possible. With the increased life expectancy and ever increasing world population that we have, there simply is no need for teens to be having babies. Even though a woman's fertility still ends at menopause, gone are the days when a woman had to start having babies as a teen, and have many, many children, in order to ensure that at least a few survived all the childhood diseases. The negative impact of teen pregnancy on a society is more than well documented. [sm=2cents.gif]
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