Comments on: Should minors be allowed to buy morning-after pill?

By: McKenzie

McKenzie — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:59:22 +0000

I think you should be able to buy the pill because more than 80% of teenagers have sex before they are 18 and if you are able to be responsible enough to have sex, then you should be responsible enough to take care of a problem if it occurs.
I am a 17 year old girl and I think it would be a good idea to at least be able to buy the pill, because that means you are responsible enough to think about taking away another life who didn’t even have a say in anything.
And by the way, some people do not care whether you graduated college with a 3.8 GPA or not.. keep that stuff to yourself, we’re talking about birth control not your college experience!!!

By: Sheri

Sheri — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:50:59 +0000

I have read multiple posts regarding this issue: Pros and Cons. Both valid points; however the one point that is assumed in the Pro side is that parental involvement is a given. Coming from an extremely disfunctional family w/absolutely NO parental involvement I had no “parent” to turn to. So, what was the solution? Where was/is the paretnal involvement when the sex act is being committed? Look at the “Palins”. Strong parental involvement after the fact. Kudos for them. My girlfriend, who got pregnant at 17 had “strong” parental involvement. Because she came from a VERY supportive family, she was able to keep her baby and live at home w/Kristy being brought up not only by my girlfriend, but by all family members. I wish the solution was black and white…but it isn’t.

By: MRS. M

MRS. M — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:00:55 +0000

TC GREAT OBSERVATION!!!! THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING THAT IF THE GOVERNMENT ALLOWS OUR CHILDREN TO PUT HANDS IN A PILL LIKE THE MORNING AFTER PILL, THEN, THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE FULLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BILLS TO PAID. THEY RULE AND WE “PARENTS” PAID! ALL PEOPLE DO IS SHOUT AT PARENTS FOR MORE RESPONSIBILITY OVER THEIR OWN CHILDREN, HOW CAN WE DO THAT? IF THEY ARE ALLOW TO EVERYTHING WITHOUT OUR CONSENT! THESE KIDS ARE CLAIMING CHILD SUPORT AND PROTECT FROM THE GOVERNMENT DCS, BUT THEY ARE ALLOW TO PURCHASE SUCH PILL, HAVE SEX AND ANYTHING THAT THEY CAN GET HANDS ON! ARE THEY CHILDREN OR ADULTS?! I TRULY BELIEVE THAT THIS COUNTRY HAS THE MOST INNOCENT SYSTEM THAT IS OUT THERE TO BE! CHILDRENS ARE PROTECTED WHEN A PARENT PUT A HAND ON THEM AND CAN CLAIM CHILD SUPPORT, TO ME IF A CHILD IS HAVING SEX, YOU ARE NOT A CHILD ANYMORE!!! YOU ARE OLD ENOUGHT TO KNOW ABOUT CONDONS, SEX AND PLAN B PILLS, YOU ARE AN ADULT AND SHOULD BE STOP CLAIMING CHILD SUPPORT AND BE PROTECTED BY DCS BY BEING TREATED FULLY AS AN ADULT! PERIOD!

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:19:44 +0000

Urmm Tina I’m sorry but that’s impossible, I think your friend has been lying to you or has got the wrong idea. It is a scientifically known fact that sexual intercourse is need to become pregnant. And Ronald it is rude to force your opinions up on other people, they have just as much right to their opinion as you do to yours. This is a DISCUSSION there is no right or wrong answer. However I think that young people aged 17 are just as much of an adult and just as mature and responsible as people aged one or two years older. The same problems happen to teenagers as they do to everyone else, why blame them and not the rest of the population who have experience unplanned pregnancies?

By: Tina

Tina — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:15:30 +0000

I understand why you want to ban it, but I do not think you should. I am 11 and once bought a pack of the counter, they never asked for my age. I think that we should be able to buy it because you can actually get pregnant without sex. I dont know how but it happened tomy best friend and twin sister , Bella, and she tells me everything. I know that she never had sex, but she still got pregnant. We did not tell the press cos it would shame the family if we did,, but she did get pregnant without havihg sex, so it is possible people! Luckly I managed to buy the pills for her without any trouble or it would have becam a big thing.

By: Megan

Megan — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:11:35 +0000

YES. I am 13 years old and cannot stand my period. its just more plumbing to be maintained. It is stupid that there is aquestion about it ! Some girls love it, i think.. and some girls like me hate it.
Or they could be of course buying it for sexual reasons. I think anyone that has their period should be allowed to take it.

That should become a loaw of some type!
No kidding ! ask any girll and i bet you they will not say they enjoy having their period!
ITS NOT FAIR!

By: Ronald Millsaps

Ronald Millsaps — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:50:04 +0000

“escapee”–Just now checking this blog again.

As for my “dogma”, every individual is dogmatic, my friend, so don’t pull that left-wing trick that I referred to earlier where you try to stigmatize falsely the Christian principles this nation was founded upon.

You can tell your pro-choice friends not to try to maintain their dogma into law.

You support, whether you realize your doing so or not, the myth that the individual decides what’s true. To say, for example, to abortion opponents, “…don’t have one.” is like saying the exact, same thing to opponents of drive-by shootings, whether you’d like to admit this fact or not.

As for the morning-after pill, no one should have access to it, and to no surprise, all it does is promote more and more of the irresponsibility I’ve referred to earlier, and “safe sex” isn’t the answer, either.

By: Escapee

Escapee — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:51:01 +0000

Although I disagree with you completely I understand that everyone has his or her own opinion. And you should live by your convictions. That being said, your particular dogma should not be what governs the lives and bodies of everyone else.

If you disagree with something then by all means don’t do it. Abortion is bad? Don’t get one. Sex outside of wedlock is wrong? Don’t do it.

Let other folks worry about themselves.

By: Ronald Millsaps

Ronald Millsaps — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:52:10 +0000

“escapee”–What utter nonsense you just typed. Don’t misuse freedom of speech to type your babble, and don’t give me any misogynistic babble about abortion allegedly being a female issue (oh, the morning-after pill IS the same as abortion, whether in-denial folks like yourself will attest to this fact of not).

Keep your excuses to yourself. You pro-choice advocates have as many excuses as you do lunatical arguments, which is saying something. You try to justify abortion because the female in question isn’t the right age or doesn’t have enough income, etc.. The nonsense and lies go on and on and on, and the level of responsibility is in inverse correlation. All excuses aside, you promote not only murder but all the irresponsibility in the world, in an effort to promote more of the same for others.

By: Escapee

Escapee — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:33:08 +0000

Well Ronald, once you get pregnant and carry a baby to term you can tell people what the responsible thing to do is.

Until then, please understand that not all sex is consensual, especially when teens and young girls are concerned. And NO, the morning after pill is not abortion. It is IREESPONSIBLE to force a young woman to go through with a pregnancy based on some morality that not EVERYONE follows. Everyone has a different situation and pregnant women require a lot of care. And as soon as a baby comes into the picture who needs constant care because the mother was in no position to be a mother in the first place I know who will start complaining first about having to support that baby.