The monring after pill is creating a lot of controversy. The main point of dissension seems to be whether to make it prescription or not, with the religious right and similar moralists wanting it prescription so 16 year old girls can't get their hands on it. I'm not sure where I fall on this. Making it simple for a 16 year old girl to get a morning after pill (or a bottle of them) makes me feel like there won't be any virgin females in college anymore, they'll all have fucked their way through high school without having to worry about the consequences. This will be reinforced by middle school and high school sex-ed classes which will teach the girls exactly how and when to take the pills, and leave them feeling like there are no bad consequences resulting from a lot of sex. Is that REALLY what we want?
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
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- Name: Ben Skott
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im pretty sure that the morning after pill was developed for rape victims. i could never imagine how a woman feels after a rape let alone carrying the rapist's child. pharmicists who refuse to fill morning after perscriptions are slowing down the healing process and potentially causing the woman to go through a painful abortion. i have never heard of the morning after pill presented as an easy way out for young girls in a sexed class. and i would hope that the majority of doctors perscribe the morning after pill to rape victims and victims of molestation. AND a dr. can only perscribe 1-2 pills. thats it. (probably only 1) also, as much as i am for sexual education...it is also the parnets' responsibility to have open discussions about sex with their children. if you want your daughters to keep their legs shut then you need to raise them to do so. and if they want to have sex take them to the gyno. there is a real lack of parental responsiblity now-a-days and our youth is being raised by mtv and bet. teachers cant do it alone. but of course we get blamed for all the rotten eggs. (like you are doing with blaming sexed) i'll leave you with a question... dont you think that the boy has any responsibility?
just goes back to double standards...she's a slut and he's a rockstar.
Wendy, did you read what I wrote? I'm not arguing against the morning after pill. I'm against making it non-prescription so Suzy 16 year old can pick some up at CVS without a prescription. Basically your entire post has no relevance to what I wrote.
you have a pretty negative attitude about the whole thing. you said you're "not sure where you fall on this" but you dont seem to say anything positive about the morning after pill being over the counter. i think its fairly revelant to your comment. even though it would never go over the counter, it would be a tremendous benefit to those women who need it quickly. and, by the way....suzy 16 can just ask for a perscription at planned parenthood. girls arent going to sleep around because their health teacher tells them about a magic pill. and if parents were more involved suzy 16 wouldnt gobble them up like m&m's. if people have to show photo id to by over the counter cold medicines now, im they'd have similar way of selling it. like not under 18 without a parent or something.
Gee Ben, for someone who believes "to each his own", you're pretty apt to point the finger in this situation. Just so you know, these "virgins" require a boy's penis to properly have sex (and thus need the pill), it's just that the girl is the one who has the baby growing inside of her, ergo she's the one stuck making this decision.
I'm sure you had sex in high school or college, and if you didn't you would've liked to have. But you would not have liked to have had a child at that age, eh? Well guess what, most of the time the responsibility of dealing with the consequences of sex falls on the female, so she has to make these choices. Sorry if this doesn't paint a prettier picture of high school these days.
I stand corrected. Sometimes it's easy to forget the female perspective, just as I'm sure the male perspective is sometimes lost to women.
But it does bring up another point. Is it a bad thing that in our society, among both males and females, sex is so seperated from consequences? Or has it always like this? Some doomsayers might say it's a sign of the decadence of Western culture, similar to what supposedly led to the fall of Rome. Decadence and complacency.
A more optimistic outlook might find the liberation of sex as an enlightenment where people are more free. If it weren't for the diseases, that might be tempting, who knows how things might turn out?
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