Birth Control Availability to Teens
English I Honors
16 April 2013
Birth Control to Teens
Teens should have availability to birth control because it could lower teen pregnancy rates, therefore the United States should allow birth control availability to teens. Times have changed and new technology is available and that has led to new medicine such as birth control. Birth control is legal but teens have restricted access. The United Stated should change that because it could have a great affect on teen abortions and unexpected pregnancies.
To start off, though people do not want to know that there child is sexually active but it happens. Times have changed greatly as Beth Rosenthal says “There are two generations of women alive now who have memory of what life was like before abortion and birth control where legal in the United States” (22). Birth control is legal in the United States now, but they distribute it at a certain age limit. As Rosenthal said earlier there was times where birth control were illegal, but times have changed, and so have people and the way they live. As more and more time goes by new technology is invented and so many advancements are made, new medicine and cures. In the birth control timeline during the early 1900s there was a significant change in birth control “1930-1950s, birth control availability and creations increased greatly” (Pro-Quest Staff). Another example of how birth control has changed over the years in November of 2012 “The American Academy of Predicts” gave a statement saying that doctors could give minors prescriptions in advance of them becoming sexually active (Pro-Quest Staff). During the teenage age teens explore and unfortunately it also involves sexual activity. Birth Control could stop the accidental pregnancies and abortions. Some may have the argument that is if they don’t make mistakes like involving themselves in sexual activities they wouldn’t have to worry about pregnancies, but they are teens, it’s the time where they make mistakes. These
16 April 2013
Birth Control to Teens
Teens should have availability to birth control because it could lower teen pregnancy rates, therefore the United States should allow birth control availability to teens. Times have changed and new technology is available and that has led to new medicine such as birth control. Birth control is legal but teens have restricted access. The United Stated should change that because it could have a great affect on teen abortions and unexpected pregnancies.
To start off, though people do not want to know that there child is sexually active but it happens. Times have changed greatly as Beth Rosenthal says “There are two generations of women alive now who have memory of what life was like before abortion and birth control where legal in the United States” (22). Birth control is legal in the United States now, but they distribute it at a certain age limit. As Rosenthal said earlier there was times where birth control were illegal, but times have changed, and so have people and the way they live. As more and more time goes by new technology is invented and so many advancements are made, new medicine and cures. In the birth control timeline during the early 1900s there was a significant change in birth control “1930-1950s, birth control availability and creations increased greatly” (Pro-Quest Staff). Another example of how birth control has changed over the years in November of 2012 “The American Academy of Predicts” gave a statement saying that doctors could give minors prescriptions in advance of them becoming sexually active (Pro-Quest Staff). During the teenage age teens explore and unfortunately it also involves sexual activity. Birth Control could stop the accidental pregnancies and abortions. Some may have the argument that is if they don’t make mistakes like involving themselves in sexual activities they wouldn’t have to worry about pregnancies, but they are teens, it’s the time where they make mistakes. These
Cited: Rosenthal, Beth. “Birth Control” Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2009 Print.