The Morning After Pill

My friend (who's twelve) had protected sex with her boyfriend (who's thirteen) but the condom broke and now she thinks she might be pregnant.

Fucking fabulous, right?

Let's face the facts--kids are always going to have sex no matter how many abstinence assemblies you make them sit through or how many times you CLEARLY STATE that they should always use protection because a majority of the world's youth is brain-dead and therefore they will not listen. Having something like the Morning After Pill as an extra precaution or a last minute resort just...helps. I can't exactly word that very well, so I'll just say that. It helps.

My friend knows a 15 year old who's had 4 abortions.
I know a 14 year old that frequently has sex, and has had 2 abortions.

Tbh, although I personally wouldn't want my parents to know, it's probably better if they do, I mean they're only looking out for your safety, right?

In my town, there is a place called YPIC, where you can get condoms, pills, e.t.c. for free.

Overrated Sanity:

My friend knows a 15 year old who's had 4 abortions.
I know a 14 year old that frequently has sex, and has had 2 abortions.

Tbh, although I personally wouldn't want my parents to know, it's probably better if they do, I mean they're only looking out for your safety, right?

In my town, there is a place called YPIC, where you can get condoms, pills, e.t.c. for free.

We have a place like that tooo and you can get everything for free...

A friend of a friend...shes the most responsible person ever, really sensible. Her boyfriend is 25 (we're 16/17), and basically their condom broke. Had to pay £25 for the Pill.
£25 is an awful lot of money, especially if you don't keep it down. You need another one. £50!
Even if the age is lowered (i think it might be 16 here, though i'm not sure) kids may still have to go to their parents for the money.

dreamersrequiem:

A friend of a friend...shes the most responsible person ever, really sensible. Her boyfriend is 25 (we're 16/17), and basically their condom broke. Had to pay £25 for the Pill.
£25 is an awful lot of money, especially if you don't keep it down. You need another one. £50!
Even if the age is lowered (i think it might be 16 here, though i'm not sure) kids may still have to go to their parents for the money.

This is why they should have more free clinics. A friend of mine went to PP and I went with her, she went to get birth control, they gave her a bag full of condoms, the birth control, and a thing of morning after pills, all free. I know that if it hadn't been free she wouldn't have been able to get it. I think there needs to be more free clinics available to minors. I also believe that minors should not have to go to their parents, especially if their parents are religious. That would just be miserable for both the minor and the parents.

Agreed. You don't want some thirteen-year-old walking around pregnant because she couldn't get the morning-after pill. That's just not right, but also she should have thought about her actions in the first place. Still, it's not right to require an age limit on the pill.

free clinics are a good idea. especially for those underage, or those who can't afford the morning after pill.

Forcing someone to have a child shouldn't be used as a punishment.
That's barbaric.

i agree with dru.
it may just be one stupid mistake, and if it is used as a punishment the child could suffer. plus, there's always the fact that the condem might split, in which case no one can be blamed, and it'll be the mother who suffers because of it.

druscilla; fuck me:

Forcing someone to have a child shouldn't be used as a punishment.
That's barbaric.

Completely agree!
It's not like lowering the age will make them STOP having sex.

I'm sorry.. but I have to bring this into the discussion...
What about the situation of rape? A friend of my sisters was a virgin and then on the way home from a party she was raped by a stranger. Thankfully, a pregnancy did not develop from it, but what if it had? It can't be easy to talk to your parents about, and most rape cases go without the victim talking about it, so the morning after pill should be available for people under 18.

Arcane-Inamorata:

I'm sorry.. but I have to bring this into the discussion...
What about the situation of rape? A friend of my sisters was a virgin and then on the way home from a party she was raped by a stranger. Thankfully, a pregnancy did not develop from it, but what if it had? It can't be easy to talk to your parents about, and most rape cases go without the victim talking about it, so the morning after pill should be available for people under 18.

They give the morning-after pill to rape victims at hospitals.
So obviously the side effects for teenagers can't be too bad.
We already know I think it should be legal, but yeah, there's a tidbit for you.

The instance of rape is a good example, after reading the first page, I was surprised that nobody had brought it up sooner.
But examples aside, I think that the morning after pill should be available to every woman/girl who wants/needs it, regardless of the situation.

Look, I know it's not legal for anyone under 16 to have sex (in Australia) but wouldn't the general public prefer to let anyone who needs to take the morning after pill just have it, regardless of age, or would they just prefer 12 and 13 year olds to be forced to have a child, just because they had sex. As Dru said; it's barbaric. I think it's worse to force a child to raise a child, than to just make the morning after pill available to every woman. =]

i just asked my brother about this, he said: "well if they give contraceptives to people under 16 it's like saying they can have sex."

But i wouldn't say the morning after pill was excatly a contraceptive. and anyway, as i pointed out to him, no matter what you do people are STILL going to be having sex under age. people do what they want.

dreamersrequiem:

i just asked my brother about this, he said: "well if they give contraceptives to people under 16 it's like saying they can have sex."

But i wouldn't say the morning after pill was excatly a contraceptive. and anyway, as i pointed out to him, no matter what you do people are STILL going to be having sex under age. people do what they want.

I would count it as a contraceptive.
After all, it prevents pregnancy.

I agree that the pill should have no age limit.

Some girls have unprotected sex for many, many, many reasons.

But yet again, seeing a doctor to get a prescription is a good idea.
Because if they go to see a doctor about it, the doctor can also check for other things that might have occurred during unprotected sex.

The MAP is just so you don't get pregnant. But it doesn't stop infections like herpes and such. So going to a doctor can help in that way.

faux elitism:

It just irks me that pills relating to sex have to be the most controversial and fussed over. Where are our priorities?

its controversial because it involves terminating a life.

I thought Dru pointed out that the morning after pill does not in fact terminate a life.

Nope, it just encourages menstruation. That's why there is a time period of when you can take it, so it avoids pregnancy.
So within the 72 hours, the egg might not be planted [most likely it won't be], so you take the MAP and it 'washes out everything' so to speak, like a normal period.
It doesn't terminate a life because there isn't a life there yet.

But if you take the pill after the 72 hours, it's most likely that it won't work.

It all depends on how you look at it really, some people think that is terminating a potential life and so...