Should we give 11-14 children the "pill"?

Recently a middle school, King Middle School, located in Maine, US, got the state to pass a law. This law stated that by parents consent, if the parents ALLOWED their daughters to go to the health clinic, then they can get pregnancy pills. These are middle schoolers we are talking about. To top this off, these girls can these pills WITHOUT parent notification. As long as the parents allow the child to go to the nurses office, then they can go get the pill. Reason being, is that they want to lower the raising rate of underaged pregnancy. However, this also helps to spread STDs and increase emotional problems amongst the younger, as well as incouraging students to have sex and reduce risks.


http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=140910&ac=PHnws

So how do you feel about this? Incouragement of sex or reduction of abortion rates and underaged pregnancy?

Please dont post any un-educated posts. We want to lower abortion rates, underaged pregnancy. Was this a good way to do so?

 

No, of course not. It's just incouraging them to have sex. I mean if they can just go grab pills from the nurse (In most states you can't, you need a doctors note), what's to stop them? Of course the pill doesn't always work, so this action could lead to more problems.

 

True.

But what about abortion rates? This will lower abortion rates surely wouldnt it?

What about underaged pegnancies leading to children at an early age? That could completely ruin a persons life.

Also, the US doesnt like the fact that the number of pregant teens is increasing, so thats another reason to support this policy.

 

There are pluses and minuses to this. The abortion rate will obviously go down tremendously, saying that the young girl actually goes and asks the nurce for them(i highly doubght any 11 year old that is going to have sex would reveal it to anyone besides her lover). I could see emotions going crazy due to this which would be a long story to write so i won't. Encouraging them to have sex is one way to look at, but if they feal that they can have sex with someone at such a young age i think they'd obviously do it reguardless of pills or no pills. Overall i would say, it should be tested on a small amount of kids who want them before released to the whole state or country.

 

thats just wrong

 

It doesn't encourage sex, it encourages safe sex. The kids that do it are going to do it regardless of whether or not they have birth control, for the most part.

 

Completely safe? What about STD's?

 

Hell no, nothing is safe about it, stds will spread and there too young...give em a good smacking.

 

overall it encourages sex correct?

the kids that are going to do it NOW might not of done it before they had "the pill"

if your an 11-14 year old girl now just think about it from their perspective.

Girl: "I'm thinking about having sex with my bf, he's just so amazing XOXO!"
Friend from another district: "Why would you even consider it!? what if you get pregnet!?"
Girl: "Well, I usually wouldn't think about something like this, but now we have this "pill" at our school that makes it safe so that wont happen.."
Friend: "In that case it must be all right since adults see to be happy with keeping us safe"

look at it that way....

people that ordinarly wouldnt think of such a thing might do it now, because it is "safer"

yes it does cut abortion rates, but in my oppinion their still just killing the baby before its born still.... its all the same in my book.


its completely absurd....

 

the point is that kids who are ready to have sex will have sex regardless of the pills. If i told you to take your clothes off and i had been going out with you for a year or two, chances are you still would be uncomfortable. Those who are comfortable enough to have sex will do it regardless of pills.

 

What, all forms of birth control are murder? Is masturbation therefore murder, as well as nocturnal emissions?

Also, you'll find that those who accept the birth control would have had sex anyway.

 

I consider it murder when in what our day calls "sleeping with her" if the two (or more) had forms of intercorse thats what I consider murder

I would not consider masturbation murder, nor nocturnal emissions even though I view the first as wrong.

It is not in all cases those who accept "the pill" would have done it anyways, and in time i feel that it shall effected the decisions of many. Also they dont seem to be offered "the pill" as I would call accepting, I would consider it being their if necessary they aren't being asked to take it.

 

I think that the Birth rate would go way down but it is morally wrong for 11-14 year olds to be told "it is ok to have sex" because they don't know love yet. and the STD rate would skyrocket.

 

i dun want to be gettin 11-yr-olds preggie. So I says yes.

I never knew adjectives could change nouns! I must've missed that lesson.
You're brilliant.

 

Correct.

If the pill is being promoted, it's encouraging safe sex.

If children grow up with these sorts of pregnancy precautions around them, and available to them, they will learn and understand safe sex.

 

How is having sex murder?

 

Explain to me how it is Promoting Safe Sex when birth control gives you the ability to fuck anyone you want and not get pregnant?

i mean, the point of safe sex wasn't to stop baby's it was to stop STD's from the 1970's.

by any means. we have gone completely backwards, now kids in the future will think that they can fuck anyone they want without getting pregnant or without consequences, which proves my point STD'S WILL SKYROCKET. thus making "safe sex" "unsafe sex"

All the pill does is makes it virtually impossible to become pregnant, it does not do anything to stop any form of disease which was the entire point of "safe sex awareness"

sure pregnancy is a slight problem, but what about when aids and other diseases become much larger problems because of this pill.

my point is. think about the future, not now. 90% of the world's mistakes aren't noticed till 10 - 20 years after it is to late.

like heroin, perfect example. they thought it was a huge advancement in medical technologies for almost 90 years, until they realized what it was doing to the world as far as human safety and diseases. then soon after almost every country in the world banned and marked it as an illegal drug.

 

Exactly, the kids are going to be having sex either way, mine aswell make it safe. It's not illegal, it's natural, part of life is making your own damn mistakes.

 

either way, people are going to have sex.
the pill being open to younger people, in my opinion, will lower abortion rates and as some other people are saying, encourage safe sex.

obviously you people saying that its just going to encourage people to have un safe sex more havent been 13 and 14? maybe giving 11 and 12 year olds access to this is a bit extreme, but its better to be safe than sorry, in my opinion.

 

They dont say it encourages unsafe sex. It encourages sex period.

Im trying to have an unbiased point here, so ill be arguing for both sides.

This idea might sound good to some, but please remember, these ARE underaged kids and if they are being "encouraged" like this, that means that the number of sexual active children will increase. More money will be needed to set aside and the issue will become as so forth "capital intensive". Also, you need to know there IS still a fail rate that goes with these pills, and many medical problems may arrise from taking these pills, as any other medication or drug would.

Also, your arguement is still slightly flawed. At a middle school age, girls start puberty at the age of 11-12 anyways, so theres not too much difference between 11and 13. Can you explain how it is "bit extreme?"