It has come to the attention that 14 different schools in New York are now offering birth control pills to their students. This has been going on since January 2011 and has already reached 1,100 pupils.
This program that offers said contraceptive tools is called Connecting Adolescents to Comprehensive Health. What this does is offer "morning after pills" to educational facilities that tend to have a higher rate of pregnancy. These schools also don't have as much access to healthcare.
Nearly half of the teens in New York City have already had sexual intercourse and seven out of ten young women that get pregnant drop out of school. These numbers are baffling, one would think that the people would be all for it, but that is not the case here. This new and well, rather helpful program is facing criticism.
Students don't need permission to get these contraceptive items unless their parents decide not to participate in the program. Some people question, are they ready for this new step in our nation's history?
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I don't think that the schools should offer the pills to their students. I think if the students desire those kind of pills that they or their parents should get them themselves.
ReplyDeleteThis is pretty controversial. On one hand, handing out birth control pills promotes safe sex, keeping teenage girls in school, and preventing teens from ruining their futures with a pregnancy. But on the other hand, it is promoting sex; teens can use these pills to have sex without getting permission from their parents. If New York school continue to hand out these pills, students should have to get a parent's permission.
ReplyDeleteI think this is very controversial and if the school wants to send a message of abstinence then offering birth control is not the way to go.
ReplyDeleteYou guys all make valid points but I'm going to have to disagree with you. I understand that it is kind of promoting sex, but on the other hand, it IS keeping more teens in school and out of parenthood. This program will help our generation become better things like doctors and lawyers and not mothers and fathers at sixteen.
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