today is teens becoming sexually active. Not all teens have access to birth control or condoms. Just because a girl is on birth control doesn’t mean she shouldn’t use condoms. Birth control isn’t one hundred percent preventable. Teens should always have access to condoms because they help protect against STDS or any other diseases. Condoms also help prevent pregnancy. The United States is becoming over populated‚ so teenagers who are sexually active should be able to have access to birth control and condoms
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Formal Outline Topic: Birth control access to teenage girls Thesis statement: Although teenage girls are prohibited from purchasing birth control‚ laws should be implemented to allow access to birth control as a means of managing safer sex‚ preventing the health risks and guarding them from the cycle of poverty. 1. Reasons for not allowing birth control to be given to teenagers A. It encourages sexual activity (Sex with many partners -promiscuity) B. Abstinence should be promoted
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English I Honors 16 April 2013 Birth Control to Teens Teens should have availability to birth control because it could lower teen pregnancy rates‚ therefore the United States should allow birth control availability to teens. Times have changed and new technology is available and that has led to new medicine such as birth control. Birth control is legal but teens have restricted access. The United Stated should change that because it could have a great affect on teen abortions and unexpected pregnancies
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“625‚000 teens became pregnant in 2010.” (Kaplan) Birth control is available to any teenager without parental consent in almost all states‚ excluding Texas and Utah. Teen girls should be able to have access to birth control without parental consent because it helps prevent teen pregnancy‚ it prevents young women from having to give their child up for adoption or having an abortion‚ and there are other benefits to taking hormonal contraceptives besides preventing pregnancy. About three in ten American
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Teen Pregnancy Prevention Birth Control Tamara Bernard March 5‚ 2013 Ms. Morcos Period #8 Abstract According to Women’s Health Channel‚ teenage mothers and the baby’s birth are at risk for developing health problems. Therefore teenage pregnancy prevention is an important matter. This research paper will be focusing on the advantage and disadvantage of the contraceptive‚ and how effective it can be‚ comparing abstinence and birth control and
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Since the 1970 ’s‚ sexually transmitted diseases(STDs)‚ unintended pregnancies‚ and other problems from sexual activity have increased among adolescents in the United States. Approximately 1 million adolescent girls become pregnant each year and 86% of all STDs occur among persons aged 15-29 years.1 Premarital and teenage sex are far from being a new idea. What is new is the way we deal with it. One of the most common solutions is to distribute mass quantities of condoms and
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Teenage Pregnancies The number of teen pregnancies nowadays has become prevalent. Every year‚ more than 360‚000 teen-aged girls who give birth in the United States‚ based on the statistics. There is a tendency that teen pregnancy that may increase the costs in terms of both social and economic of mother and children. Teenage mothers are less likely to receive proper prenatal care‚ and their children are more likely to be born before term‚ to have low birth weight‚ and to have developmental delays
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Giving Birth Control to Teens Birth control for teens has always been a very controversial subject for parents‚ teachers and teens. Some believe that the government should mandate birth control for teens. There are some that are concerned with the government overstepping the lines of freedom. Due to the rise of teenage pregnancy and the heavy costs that is incurred‚ legislature should enact a law making it mandatory that teens receive birth control. Early teenage pregnancy risks the teens
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estimated teen parents is about 15‚957 mothers or soon to be mothers (Clark). Most teens become pregnant by having unprotected sex. This is probably because they don’t talk to their about those things‚ they may feel uncomfortable about this situation. Teens should have access to contraceptives without parent’s consent. Why should teens have full access to contraceptives? Many teens don’t want their parents knowing that they are having sex plus some parents will say no to having sex. Most teens are mature
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Giving Birth Control Devices to Teenagers Giving birth control devices to teenager s is very common among today’s society. Parents want their kid to remain a virgin but in today’s world that is very unlikely. Many parents have trouble on deciding when to talk to your kids about birth control or just taking them to go get birth control. Parents have the decision on whether or not you support their child on having sex by giving them birth control. You have the worry of your child getting pregnant
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