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After you overlook the other questions so conveniently?
I know what children are like.
other than your emotional aversion to the idea of a 15 year old girl having sex,
Do you have children?
Now you are making up things that were never said or even suggested. As stated before I am a parent, I know what sort of things kids get into at different ages. So when you want to discuss things without making up stuff, let us know.
Explain how this pill is different than buying a condom.
Bringing up Hitler means you have waived any claim on honest debate. There's no reason to respond to someone who is going to behave like you have. I dont try and have rational discussions with blatantly dishonest people. I'm sorry that bothers you.
Explain how this pill is different than buying a condom.
I don't support giving parents that authority. My own parents were pro-life and I'm pro-choice. I wasn't sexually active as a teenager, but if I was and needed my parents' permission to get the morning after pill, I can guarantee you they'd say no. Same goes for an abortion. Besides which, my parents finding out I had pre-marital sex would lead to great shame and potential disownment. My reproductive status is none of their business.
If they're mature enough to be having sex and maybe get pregnant, then they're mature enough to use the morning after pill.
My only concern is the lack of research about this pill for girls at age 15. But the FDA has been wreckless in recent years, so they'll just let the public experiment until something goes wrong and then modify the drug policy, as usual.
Explain how this pill is different than buying a condom.
This is hardly surprising when you realize that the Obama administration, within the past 6 months, hired a former lobbiest for the manufacturer of the Plan B drug as the lead attorney for the Department of Health and Human Services. This lobbiest also happened to be a Deputy Commissioner with the FDA during the Clinton administration.
Why bother with lobbying when you can get right in the hen house and be part of the decision making process.
This is not a diversion: this pill can negatively affect a woman's health. There may be reactions. She may have some conditions that she chooses to ignore out of fear of pregnancy/her parents. Her parents may choose to contact her doctor first and make sure it doesn't conflict with other meds she's on, for example. She may take it in secret, tell no one, and then have a side effect that leads to her death.
EDIT: Oh, and this pill also does not protect against STDs.
Testing and use show that Plan B is safe to use
Individuals can react to anything, including aspirin, ibuprophen, any over the counter drug. Or be allergic. Or have a reaction if they are on other medications. No medication is 100% safe.
That's why we don't just let 15 yr olds just go live out on their own without parental permission...for example.
Which is why everything should require a prescription and a letter of approval from their parents :roll:
Why does the same logical fallacy keep repeating itself over and over in this threat, unabated?
I think it's a serious mistake to assume that you have total control over your teenager. If they are able to have sex without you knowing then are obviously living their own life whether you want to let them or not.
Yes, that's right. Everything should for no better reason than to prove your argument is right
Or, there are legitimate health reasons. Hmmmm. Gee, which shall I choose?
"Many women have taken emergency contraception without serious complications. But it's a good idea to ask your doctor about possible interactions with other medications.
Potential side effects of Plan B or Plan B One-Step include:
nausea
abdominal pain
fatigue
headache
menstrual changes
dizziness
breast tenderness
vomiting
diarrhea
With Plan B or Plan B One-Step, you may also have some unexpected bleeding. "
Plan B (Morning-After Pill): Effectiveness and Side Effects
It is overdoses of 2 different hormones which, if overused (like as a contraceptive) can disrupt and damage a woman's future fertility.
It was the FDA that decided to not allow Plan B to be OTC for young women. It was a judge that ordered that Plan B be made available OTC, so the facts show that this appointment had nothing to do with it.
So, from this you just suppose parents continue to step further and further away from their parenting role and teaching their kids better judgment and getting them through periods that could harm them?
It's no different keeping a kid from touching a hot stove than keeping them from dying from side affects of a drug.
Who says the parent will say no? Another presence if there is a problem, to call 911? What judgment is a teen using if they are hiding all their behavior from their parents, were dumb or careless enough to get pregnant, and now want to take a pill and 'fix' things?
It's about judgment and again....teens are not known for great judgment.....sorry, am I hitting a sore spot? That is why we have ages of consent, which I wrote earlier.
According to who's rules? I'm a parent, the FDA (FedGov) is taking away my RIGHT to raise my children as I see fit.
Hitler did the same.
I'd also like to know if you are a parent?
While I agree with making Plan-B available, it's a drug which does need to be supervised. It's a powerful medication and as others have noting will be the target of shoplifters.
I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I think it's a good thing that the morning-after pill is readily available. On the other, I think giving 15-year-olds access to this medication without their parents' knowledge isn't the right thing to do. Damned if you do...damned if you don't.
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