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Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by Maslo
15 year old girls are now able to self-determine in terms of their reproductive health.
It is that bloody simple.
If they can make decisions on their health in terms of this morning after pill, then they should be able to make decisions on every aspect of their health.
Or is there another agenda based soley on the reproductive aspects?
Originally posted by Happy1
reply to post by kaylaluv
These pills are hormones that induce a reaction to shed your menstrual cycle early. Hormone replacement pills for menopause have been shown to cause breast cancer in women. Birth control pills are shown to create all kinds of problems in women and girls that use them.
If your are taking these pills to cause menstruation out of your regular cycle, you will have problems.
Add cigarette smoking, and junk food to the list - a girl or a women will cause many problems in their bodies.
WHY DON"T PEOPLE LIKE YOU GET A CLUE!
Originally posted by kaylaluv
15 year old girls make mistakes. Allowing them access to the morning after pill makes it a little easier for them to fix their mistake. Allowing them access to alcohol and cigarettes only helps them to make more mistakes -- why should we make it easier for them to make mistakes? See the difference? It is that bloody simple.
Statistics: According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, 36.9 percent of 14-year-olds have had sex – more than one out of three. Among 12th graders, 66.4 percent have had sex.
If you want to go in that direction, you would have to not allow 15 year olds access to water without adult supervision, because they could drink too much and get water poisoning. Silly, isn't it? The truth is, there are some things you can trust a 15 year old with and some things you shouldn't. It's hard to know exactly where to draw the line, so you kind of have to look at the big picture. It's not black or white, all or nothing.
Originally posted by theconspirator
reply to post by sonnny1
Your mindset sounds as if sex is a bad thing. Sex is normal. Sex among teens is normal. Do you not remember being in highschool? You people grow up and lose touch with reality. You dont want your kids to have sex, or even know about sex, at the same age you became interested in sex. So your grand idea is to tell teens, "sex is bad. Dont have it. Dont learn about it. Dont talk about it. Dont think about it." Good luck to your children's social and mental wellbeing.
Use of the abortion drug RU-486 has resulted in the deaths of 29 women worldwide, according to a new report.
Originally posted by kaylaluv
reply to post by sonnny1
I will agree that a big part of the problem is bad or nonexistent parenting. That's why I advocate public schools getting more involved in educating kids about sex and its consequences, even at the elementary school level BEFORE they hit puberty. We need a lot more discussion about it, and if the parents won't do it, somebody needs to.
Originally posted by theconspirator
reply to post by sonnny1
Not all teens are able to talk to thier parents if an accident happened, which happens often because they are just learning what it is to actually have sex. What if a condom breaks and she needs the morning after pill, but cant talk to a parent about what to do. It happens all the time.
Also, 29 women died worldwide, thats horrible. But that means she has roughly a .0000000004% chance of dying from it.
According to the study’s statistics, the abortion pill failed for 1,169 women. A Dec. 20, 2012, Reuters story reported there were 385 serious complications during the study period, “including 238 who sought emergency room treatment, 135 who were admitted to the hospital, 114 who had a blood transfusion and 57 who required intravenous antibiotics.”
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by DaTroof
"Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed"?????
Do you have any idea where that line of logic has most often been seen and used for the context? I'm sorry, but that statement is so repugnant to me, it vibrates right off the screen.
We have ages set in this nation ..and the WORLD at large shares them, albeit a little different for thresholds at times, for very good reasons. Biologic level of physical ability is not, in any way, the motivating factor. Mental and Psychological development for making informed choices out of sound judgment are the factors.
However people want to dress it up or lipstick this piggy of bad thinking, a 15 year old doesn't pack the intellectual horsepower of an 18 year old. By outright medical fact of brain development, neither packs the gear of a 20-25 year old, where physical develop of that organ has pretty well run it's course and you are who you will ever really be.
The suggestion that a child, as a 15 year old truly is in the end, has the independent ability to make such sound judgement and decisions as to choices with dramatic ramification to their own medical futures is absurd.
Or ...to put this another way which is equally valid? If they can be trusted to make any decision along these lines, alone and in isolation of ANY older guidance? Then a 15 year old can and SHOULD stand for trial as a fully qualified adult for *ANY* crime committed at that age as well.
You cannot have the cake and then argue over the particulars of ingredients. It's all or nothing for the level of logic being used here. Are 15 year olds the intellectual equal of adults or aren't they?