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Pediatricians urge IUDs or implants for teen girls
Kansas City Star ^ | 9-29-2014 | LINDSEY TANNER

Posted on 09/29/2014 9:20:14 AM PDT by Citizen Zed

IUDs and hormonal implants cost more, usually hundreds of dollars, because inserting them involves a medical procedure typically done in doctors' offices. But they're less expensive in the long run than over-the-counter condoms or prescription birth control pills, said Dr. Mary Ott, an adolescent medicine specialist and associate pediatrics professor at Indiana University. She is the policy statement's lead author,Teens have to remember to use pills and condoms consistently. By contrast, IUDs typically work for three to 10 years after insertion, while implants typically last three years.

The new guidance was published Monday in Pediatrics. It echoes 2012 recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

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KEYWORDS: antiabstinence; corruptingaminor; damagedgoods; hedonism; moralabsolutes; prolife; sexpositiveagenda; sexualizingchildren; slutwalk; stds; teensex
And premarital sex is about 100% effective at destroying a person's ability to remain faithful and free of disease.
1 posted on 09/29/2014 9:20:14 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed
IUDs and hormonal implants cost more, usually hundreds of dollars

One word - Obamacare.

2 posted on 09/29/2014 9:24:00 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Maybe it would be best to avoid all forms of “implants” at that age.


3 posted on 09/29/2014 9:24:48 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Suggesting an IUD implant on a young girl whose body has not fully matured is a form of malpractice IMO.


4 posted on 09/29/2014 9:25:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Citizen Zed

Gotta make these kids available for consequence-free sex, don’t you know.

War on women in action.


5 posted on 09/29/2014 9:29:19 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: Citizen Zed

How long before this “recommendation” becomes mandatory? That’s how “progressivism” works - progressively.


6 posted on 09/29/2014 9:31:14 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Citizen Zed

Yes I agree, but playing devil’s advocate, what about all the teen-aged pregnancies and the welfare train, abortions, and societal issues that creates? If you had to pick one ill to prevent would it be the sex or the pregnancies?

Again I am not for this at all, just saying.


7 posted on 09/29/2014 9:35:56 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Citizen Zed

Sounds like the way you would treat cattle.


8 posted on 09/29/2014 9:37:34 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Citizen Zed
Here's how progressivism works:

1. Demand civil unions for gays.
2. Demand gay marriage.
3. Punish/fine those who oppose gay marriage.
4. Normalize homosexuality in the public schools.
5. Demand polygamous marriages.
6. Legalize sex with minors.
7. Legalize incest.

1. Legalize birth control for unmarried people.
2. Legalize abortion in "hard cases".
3. Legalize abortion for any reason.
4. Subsidize abortion and birth control with tax dollars.
5. Use the public schools to provide abortion and birth control without parental notification or permission.
6. Require that opponents of abortion and birth control pay for them.
7. Make the use of contraceptives mandatory.
8. Enforce mandatory sterilizations and abortion.
9 posted on 09/29/2014 9:44:42 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Citizen Zed

When a culture/society/nation reject God this is the horror than you end up with. That this is an issue is so very sad.


10 posted on 09/29/2014 9:45:51 AM PDT by all the best
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IUD’s in teenagers??

I was told that you should only use an IUD after you had had one child.

Doctor making that suggestion should have their license taken away!!


11 posted on 09/29/2014 11:33:34 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Liberals claim to want to hear other views, but then are shocked to discover there are other views)
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And premarital sex is about 100% effective at destroying a person's ability to remain faithful and free of disease.

That's how the feminazis want it. SMASH THE PATRIARCHY! SMASH MONOGAMY!

12 posted on 09/29/2014 9:21:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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