Posted on 09/21/2012 6:05:53 AM PDT by markomalley
Teenage girls may prefer the pill, the patch or even wishful thinking, but their doctors should be recommending IUDs or hormonal implants — long-lasting and more effective birth control that you don't have to remember to use every time, the nation's leading gynecologists group said Thursday.
The IUD and implants are safe and nearly 100 percent effective at preventing pregnancy, and should be "first-line recommendations," the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said in updating its guidance for teens.
Both types of contraception are more invasive than the pill, requiring a doctor to put them in place. That, and cost, are probably why the pill is still the most popular form of contraception in the U.S.
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What ever happened to teaching girls about chastity?
How about: if your old enough for sex, you are old enough to get a job and move out
Why not just sterilize every female when she reaches puberty? Presto! No unplanned pregnancy! (/s)
But seriously, I wonder if there’s active cooperation between the promoters of promiscuity and toxic contraceptives on the one hand, and the purveyors of artificial reproduction technology on the other. It would seem that they have a financial interest in common.
WE will all be paying for this ....starting NOW.
The preventative services that started Aug. 1
calls for free IUD devices for ANY health insurance plan.
MONEY MONEY MONEY....
They will be luring young girls into doctor offices during recess.
Brought to you by Dr. Obamacare and Sebelius!
FREE IUD forced on us by the STATE.
I am paying more for my insurance, you are, the insurance companies
will have to pay these IUD for “free.”
OBAMA —— STATE TAKEOVER BY STEALTH
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
ENEMY OF THE STATE
How about all of the infertility caused by IUD use?
Taxpayers will be paying for this in the long run when these women want children later on and demand government paid for fertility treatments and then medical care and special education or the resulting multiple births (which face danger of all kinds of problems, from bad hearts to blindness.)
Better that our culture dial down the heavy sexuality in movies, music, fashion, etc. And then teach the girls to hold an aspiring between their knees when they kiss a boy.
IUDs for teens, indeed! Bah, humbug!
You must bea religious fanatic. /sarc
I resemble that remark! (see tagline)
Never mind what the hormones are doing to them. Of all the complaints about chemicals in our world, I don’t hear the smart people concerned about birth control chemicals. They seem to be off limits for any real criticism, much like HRT was before an honest study showed real concerns.
What ever happened to teaching girls about chastity?
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My thought, as well.
When I was a teenaged girl, I would have been highly insulted if my doctor thought that I would be in need of any such device.
Of course, in those days, girls were expected to keep their knees together.
An IUD is a bad idea for anyone not in a long term monogamous relationship. You get an infection with that thing in place and it can wreak havoc. I hope people do their own research before listening to some bonehead idea.
An aspirin is a lot cheaper.
Chastity is so “limiting” in the age of the slut.
The popular, godless culture has set up young girls (and young men) for disappointment, disease and death.
Pelvic inflammatory disease?
Heart attack and stroke? Uterine infection and scarring?
(Howya? I was getting worried when you weren’t around the UT.)
Huh? Care to elaborate?
One tablet ...
... held firmly between the knees.
Ahhh.....thanks. I'd never heard that one before.
We must be from the same generation. Unless your grandmother or mother told you about that one! :)
1,000% success.
Aspirin...
It originated with the dearly-departed advice columnist, Ann Landers. (At least, I tend to give her the credit.)
The patch kills females quicker than the pill does.
Parents Sue After 14-Year-Old Daughter Died with Birth Control Patch
"The patch, which releases a dose of contraceptive hormones into a woman's blood stream through the skin, has been responsible for at least 17 deaths in women age 17 to 30 since its release in 2002, according to the US Food and Drug Administration." 21 November 2005
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