The Morning After Pill

  • Coral Ramone

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    I think the age limit is appropiate. If there wasnt one then young children would be whoring around and spreading more disease.

    Sex is a subject that should be discussed with your parents and also is a special thing. This drug being opened to every child would make the "specialness" of your first time (and sex in general for that matter) to drop. And I think THATS wrong.
    March 31st, 2008 at 09:57pm
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    My parents', and my family's shame of talking about sex and all it involves is so big, that if I hadn't wandered around in magazines, talks with other girls, and, later on, Internet, I'd be close to knowing nothing about it all. Happily enough I'm quite the well-informed duck, and I can only hope I'll be capable of correctly informing my own child/children. I think my mom barely knows about this pill. So YES I find it strictly necessary for teens under 18 to be allowed to purchase them without the consent of their parents. It's mandatory.
    March 31st, 2008 at 10:14pm
  • folie a dru.

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    Coral Ramone:
    I think the age limit is appropiate. If there wasnt one then young children would be whoring around and spreading more disease.

    Sex is a subject that should be discussed with your parents and also is a special thing. This drug being opened to every child would make the "specialness" of your first time (and sex in general for that matter) to drop. And I think THATS wrong.
    I've heard that the morning-after pill makes you sick beyond belief. I doubt a bunch of girls are going to be willing to "whore around" just so they can get sick the next day.

    My sister's 14-year-old friend had unprotected sex. I bought her the morning-after pill. I don't regret it. I would have regretted more not buying it and then watching her give birth.
    March 31st, 2008 at 10:55pm
  • Leonore Paisley

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    Birth control, condoms, etc. don't make kids have sex.
    Kids are more than likely going to do it anyway, so why not give them safe choices?
    March 31st, 2008 at 10:59pm
  • folie a dru.

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    I also think it's rather ignorant to think teenagers only have sex if they have birth control or something of the sort. Teenagers were having sex long before The Pill and The Morning-After Pill.
    March 31st, 2008 at 11:54pm
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    ^True, but it's not entirely incorrect either. Many reens do tend to treat sex more casually knowing that there's always the morning-after pill.
    March 31st, 2008 at 11:58pm
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    ^True, but it's not entirely incorrect either. Many reens do tend to treat sex more casually knowing that there's always the morning-after pill.
    Even if that's true, should we take it away to punish them?
    Would you like it if your parents decided to force you to have a child instead of grounding you.
    Pregnancy is never a suitable punishment.
    April 1st, 2008 at 12:23am
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    ^True, but it's not entirely incorrect either. Many reens do tend to treat sex more casually knowing that there's always the morning-after pill.
    I think parents would prefer teens having taken the morning after pill rather than being grandparents at say...35, don't you?

    I think the morning after pill is suitable for anyone underage, if it need be taken. People make mistakes, just because it's happened once doesn't mean they're whores. We shouldn't punish them by not letting them have a way out. I know I would rather take the morning after pill than be faced with the decision of parenthood/abortion/adoption nine months down the road.
    April 1st, 2008 at 06:29am
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    But what about if a unresponsible person started to rely on it? Let's say, having unprotected sex alot of the time and thinking it was okay to just go to the chemist afterwards and buy the morning after pill. Maybe if they knew a parent had to buy it they would be more responsible about it.
    April 1st, 2008 at 08:06am
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    April 1st, 2008 at 10:00am
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    druscilla; downpour.:
    Dead Meat.:
    ^True, but it's not entirely incorrect either. Many reens do tend to treat sex more casually knowing that there's always the morning-after pill.
    Even if that's true, should we take it away to punish them?
    Would you like it if your parents decided to force you to have a child instead of grounding you.
    Pregnancy is never a suitable punishment.
    Jepha Howard.:
    I think parents would prefer teens having taken the morning after pill rather than being grandparents at say...35, don't you?

    I think the morning after pill is suitable for anyone underage, if it need be taken. People make mistakes, just because it's happened once doesn't mean they're whores. We shouldn't punish them by not letting them have a way out. I know I would rather take the morning after pill than be faced with the decision of parenthood/abortion/adoption nine months down the road.
    That isn't what I was saying. I'm all for the morning-after pill. A friend of mine took it once, and I really don't want to think what might have happened if she hadn't.
    I was just replying to the post above, saying that a lot of kids rely entirely on the morning-after pill rather than just falling back on it in emergencies. Which is wrong.
    April 1st, 2008 at 10:22am
  • folie a dru.

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    The morning-after pill is sixty dollars. Do you really think teenagers are going to want to shell out 60 bucks everytime they have sex?
    April 1st, 2008 at 08:22pm
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    Yep, I do. I personally know three girls who think like that. One told me, "well, guys don't like condoms, what can I do?"
    I'm pretty sure you're wrong about the price. Over here, it only costs twenty euro, and I just Googled it for the US and got prices like fifteen to thirty dollars.
    April 1st, 2008 at 08:45pm
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    Yep, I do. I personally know three girls who think like that. One told me, "well, guys don't like condoms, what can I do?"
    I'm pretty sure you're wrong about the price. Over here, it only costs twenty euro, and I just Googled it for the US and got prices like fifteen to thirty dollars.
    I paid sixty. My mother does research on everything [she plans to go into research] and she says she has never come across any studies that indicate anyone uses the morning after pill in place of birth control. That doesn't mean that nobody does, but it does mean that the majority probably does not.
    April 1st, 2008 at 08:51pm
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    I guess it depends on where you live. My friend paid twenty euro.

    True. Yet most people don't rape other people, but that doesn't mean rape isn't a problem in society.

    Just because the majority of people don't do it doesn't mean it isn't a problem and shouldn't be addressed. Not that they should illegalise it or anything, I'm just saying that the problem of increased promiscuity due to emergency contraception does exist, and it is one con linked with the morning after pill.

    [I know that comparison was a little silly, but I'm sure you get my point.]
    April 1st, 2008 at 08:58pm
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    Dead Meat.:
    I guess it depends on where you live. My friend paid twenty euro.

    True. Yet most people don't rape other people, but that doesn't mean rape isn't a problem in society.

    Just because the majority of people don't do it doesn't mean it isn't a problem and shouldn't be addressed. Not that they should illegalise it or anything, I'm just saying that the problem of increased promiscuity due to emergency contraception does exist, and it is one con linked with the morning after pill.

    [I know that comparison was a little silly, but I'm sure you get my point.]
    I honestly couldn't care less if it makes more teens have sex if it decreases teen pregnancy and teen abortion rates. That might make me seem like a cold heartless bitch, but to me it's a fair trade-off. I don't want my fifteen-year-old sister coming home pregnant just because the government decided a child was fair punishment.
    April 1st, 2008 at 09:01pm
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    ... I hope you don't think I think it's a fair punishment.
    I would be pissed if it was illegalised. I've been in situations where I've gotten all paranoid about pregnancy and stuff, and I must admit it was sort of comforting to think that there was always a safety net to fall back on.
    I'm just saying the system's not perfect is all.
    April 1st, 2008 at 09:06pm
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    Dead Meat.:
    I guess it depends on where you live. My friend paid twenty euro.

    True. Yet most people don't rape other people, but that doesn't mean rape isn't a problem in society.

    Just because the majority of people don't do it doesn't mean it isn't a problem and shouldn't be addressed. Not that they should illegalise it or anything, I'm just saying that the problem of increased promiscuity due to emergency contraception does exist, and it is one con linked with the morning after pill.

    [I know that comparison was a little silly, but I'm sure you get my point.]
    Hm.. and then should promiscuity be somehow ''illegal'' ?
    I thought people were free to have sex with whoever they want, however they want it, even if it seems ''immoral''.
    April 1st, 2008 at 09:07pm
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    :shock: ... no.
    Yeah, that comparison was a huuuuge stretch, I said that. It was just the first thing that popped into my head, but it doesn't make my point invalid.

    No.
    >.< Not. What. I. Was. Saying. My argument was nothing to do with girls sleeping around, it was about using the morning after pill as a regular form of contraception. That's the problem I'm addressing, not promiscuity.
    April 1st, 2008 at 09:15pm
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    Dead Meat.:
    :shock: ... no.
    Yeah, that comparison was a huuuuge stretch, I said that. It was just the first thing that popped into my head, but it doesn't make my point invalid.

    No.
    >.< Not. What. I. Was. Saying. My argument was nothing to do with girls sleeping around, it was about using the morning after pill as a regular form of contraception. That's the problem I'm addressing, not promiscuity.
    Okay, I took it the wrong way then.
    I just don't think they should be more expensive, everyone should be able to buy them when they really need them.
    We should invest more in education, in telling those girls why it is wrong to have unprotected sex rather than to try to make the morning after pill illegal or expensive.
    April 1st, 2008 at 09:21pm