Now that the politics have been tossed,

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-25-2008
Now that the politics have been tossed,
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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.


- Following the Equator; Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar

 


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iVillage Member
Registered: 04-11-2009
Wed, 04-22-2009 - 11:31pm
I'm glad that we've made this small step forward.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 02-19-2008
Thu, 04-23-2009 - 12:04am
Why not 16 year olds? Why not 9 year olds?
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-25-2008
Thu, 04-23-2009 - 7:53am

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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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-20-2004
Thu, 04-23-2009 - 8:54am
You are kidding me, right? now I can see a 9 yr old girl if she was raped by an older family member or some street bumb,etc. I still think under 18, the parents should be notified if she needs Plan B.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-03-2009
Thu, 04-23-2009 - 10:02am

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!

Jabberwocka

iVillage Member
Registered: 12-25-2008
Thu, 04-23-2009 - 10:13am
I was kidding.

 


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iVillage Member
Registered: 12-25-2008
Thu, 04-23-2009 - 10:16am

There is that, and probably not too many are able to conceive at that age.

 


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Registered: 04-05-2002
Thu, 04-23-2009 - 11:44am

"As for 9 year-olds, the al fresco






iVillage Member
Registered: 03-23-2003
Thu, 04-23-2009 - 4:22pm

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?


iVillage Member
Registered: 03-30-2007
Thu, 04-23-2009 - 6:03pm
I know that kids can refuse to take medicine. A Dr. wanted to put my then 15 yr. old on medication. He said he didn't want to take it. There wasn't a darn thing I could do about it.
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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