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To: GovernmentShrinker

"They are using them to try to get teens into the clinics and onto contraceptives BEFORE they get pregnant -"

Oh I see.
They lure the girls in there without their parents knowing and give them prescriptions without the parents knowledge or permission.
And when a girl is injured, sickened, or drops dead from a birth control patch - the parents find out after it's too late.
OK - in that case I guess it's allright.


221 posted on 04/22/2006 8:33:28 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Scotswife

That's extremely rare, and is certainly no worse than when parents find out after it's too late that their daughter was pregnant. Remember the college girl a couple of years back, from a devout Catholic family, who bled to death in the bathroom of her Catholic college dorm from a natural miscarriage? She'd been afraid to tell her parents she was pregnant, so she didn't. They found out after she was dead. She'd be much more likely to be alive today if she'd had ready access to contraceptives.

Ideally, girls should feel comfortable talking to their parents about their sexuality, but very often that's not the case. There are always risks when young people are doing things they're afraid to tell the adults in their lives they're doing. With some it's recreational drugs, with some it's disorders like bulimia, with some it's sex. All can lead to serious illness, and rarely death. And it's better in all cases for these young people to be able seek adult advice and get treatment without their parents' knowledge than not at all.

It takes a certain degree of willful ignorance and/or abdication of responsibility, for parents to have no idea that their teenager is doing drugs, gorging and vomiting several times a day, or having sex. Neither their offspring nor the rest of society should be obliged to lead them by their noses to reality.

And for the umpteenth time, I'll point out the acetaminophen (in Tylenol and many other off-the-shelf medications) is a lot more deadly than any contraceptive. It is the leading cause of acute liver failure requiring liver transplant, and a significant number of deaths have resulted from it. Teenagers often take this stuff for menstrual cramps and for hangovers from alcohol use (the latter a particularly dangerous combination), and I'm not seeing any campaigns from all these anti-contraception activists who claim to be so concerned about young women's health and safety, to remove acetaminophen from non-prescription status. Face it, health and safety is not your objective; imposing your views on sexuality and reproduction on people who don't share them is your objective.


222 posted on 04/24/2006 10:46:59 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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