Sunday, October 28, 2007
headlines disscusion
We had a class disscusion on a health clinic in a public middle school with the option of birth control pills being made available to young students. Ages (11-14) This was definetly one of the deepest dicussions we have engaged in. Ultimately I hope that no school In the world would need to give out birth control pills but the fact is that we are in the year 07 and there are more and more teen pregnancies every year. The question is should their be bitrh control pills available in schools. I feel that it depends on the demographics of the city in which the school is located and the school itself. You have to find out how many teen pregnancies are their, how many kids are in unstable famailes or homes that are influencing bad decisons. There are dozens of areas in america where teen pregnancy is not a big issuem, but their are others where the numbers are overwhelming. The idea is not to promote sex or teen pregnancy but to stop it. This is how I see it, if students are getting pregnant young and every other option to help stop it was tried, then maybe birth control is the way to stop it. Maybe it can be used as a final alternative when all else fails.
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I completely agree with your statement of how it should depend purely on demographics. I never thought of it that way, but now I realize that it would be betetr for students for experience the promotion of safe sex in some areas then teen pregnancies. Thanks for clearing that up for me!
This is definitely a touchy subject matter, but I'm glad to see you have some supportive views. I agree that unstable homes and families that aren't there to supervise their children can cause them to get into trouble. Another point however, is even children who come from stable loving homes can also find themselves in unfortunate situations.
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