Should girls below 18 need to seek permission from their parents for birth control?
Yes, girls need permission
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No!
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O.K. I believe they need permission because until they are 18, legally and otherwise they are under the guidance and care of their parent(s). My daughter is 17 yrs old and I recently found out from her that she is having sex and went to the doctors and was able to get a prescription for Yaz (bc pills). How tragic that I nor her dad was involved in this process! Btw- the maker of Yaz (Bayer) is currently being sued for a host of issues (side effects) that they did not report in their advertisements or on the pkg itself. I found out many troubling things regarding that particular pill. If at the very least my daughter did not tell either one of us and she ended up taking this bc pill and something adverse happened to her as a result of this it would be a travesty. Shame on the medical community for allowing this to happen w/out parental knowledge or consent. Also many girls that are becoming sexually active with their boyfriends are being forced or pressured into having sex and some even threatened. Parents should know what is occuring in their daughters life in order to protect her as much as possible and to guide her/help her make the best choices possible for her life! Side: Yes, girls need permission
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No. There are a million reasons a girl under 18 may need birth control. There is no way to know each individual girl's individual situation. It's her body not her parents at least in this country. So any girl who is physically capable of becoming pregnant should have the same access to birth control as anyone else. Demanding they get parental permission is just another way the religious right tries to take away the rights of individuals and revert women to property Old Testament style. Side: No!
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I seriously do not think girls should have to ask for birth control. The truth of the matter is that many people under the age of 18 have sex (trust me I'm in high school) and the mojority DO NOT share this information with their parents, it is an embarressing topic and uncomfortable. Now if girls had to be forced to ask their parents permission for birth control, so they could have sex, we can assume a few things. Most parents would say no, to prevent their child from having sex, in which case most girls would just do it anyway and try more unreliable birth control option. Abother thing I can assume is that any girls would just skip the whole uncomfortable conversation altogether and just not use birth control. While it is true that we live in an age with ALOT of teenage pregnancies, the numbers would be substancially higher if girls did not even have the options that they do to use vbirth vcontrol in the first place. Side: No!
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