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Now that the politics have been tossed,
| Wed, 04-22-2009 - 10:56pm |
17 year olds have access to Plan B without a prescription.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/22/plan.b.age/index.html
It was foolish to interject politics into the issue of access to this in the first place.
In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards.
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Couldn't say about 16 year-olds, as I'm not a member of any FDA panel which evaluated Plan B.
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I wonder how many nine year old girls are physically ABLE to become pregnant.
True, pubescence has arrived earlier in successive generations; perhaps because of improved nutrition, perhaps because of more environmental exposure to hormones.
But the NINE year old example seems grossly exaggerated to me--as was your very funny response!
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There is that, and probably not too many are able to conceive at that age.
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"As for 9 year-olds, the al fresco
I still think under 18, the parents should be notified if she needs Plan B.
Playing devil's advocate here...what if the father is the reason she needs Plan B...or some other male relative?
Besides, at 17 kids are doing pretty much what they want. If you have a 17 yr. old and they are doing something they aren't suppose to be doing (say dating a 26 yr. old man.) The cops won't touch it. They say the kid will be 18 before it goes to court.
I don't have anything against these 17 yr. old taking the morning after pill. I think it's time we all wake up and realize kids are going to have sex. Whether we want them to or not.
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