Minors and Birth Control

Everybody parents their kids in different ways and everybody has their own opinion on how other parents parent there kids. Whether people like it or not nobody should be told how to raise their own child. But that will never change because we have health care facilities like Planned Parenthood who allow minors to get birth control without parents’ consent. Why should places like that give a child birth control after the parent had already said no. Although health care facilities do help a lot for other needs for women, one of the rules should change to ALL minors need a parents consent to receive birth control.

Yes the health care facilities are trying to help minors with teen pregnancies and slow down the rate. According to New York Post journalists Linda Chavez recently wrote an article regarding the teen pregnancy rate. She said that even though the United States is still has the highest pregnancy rate the numbers dramatically dropped by 52 percent. Linda Chavez said, “In 2008, the last year for which in-depth data are available, nearly 750,000 young women under 20 became pregnant, including some 236,000 teenage girls ages 15 to 17” (Page 1). This shows how many teens were on birth control since the rate had dropped 52 percent. But no matter how much the rates have dropped it still isn’t right for minors to not get permission from their parents.

Although it is a positive thing that the rate is dropping teens need to take consideration of the precautions of the use of birth control, anything thing could happen to teens if they use it. There are a lot of health risks that come to birth control that teens do not know about. They are just thinking that this little pill will stop those [teens] from getting pregnant and that is it...

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...rent’s faces. They should have no right to that; they aren’t the ones raising these teens.

However it’s understandable for teens to think that birth control is the way to go with everything that is on T.V and the internet. Even when the facilities say they don’t have to tell their parents they immediately think that is the way out. Instead of these places encouraging these teens to tell their parents they are encouraging them to take birth control so they won’t get pregnant at a young age. Which isn’t necessarily wrong but they really shouldn’t be doing that with teens girls. They should first encourage them not to have sex and then talk to their parent’s. Young girl’s bodies are not the same as a full matured woman’s body. At that teen age our bodies are still going through changes so if we have chemicals in are body like that who is to say that it would work fine.