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Having dealt with teens who actually are trying to get pregnant (yes, they are real, they dont just exist on funadvice), I think the White House needed to have given this more thought. And I dont see what this has to do with abortion. http://funadvice.com/r/3k7uei9umd
I can see how they would reason that it links to abortion, They are probably reasoning that mainly teenagers have abortions (which isn't even true according to the latest abortion statistics I could found - it is women in their 20's) and hopefully by helping them these teens might not feel that they are *forced to continue with a*bortion.
However I do not see how a pregnancy fund is going to stop the social stigma and judgement (for lack of better words) associated with pregnant teens, nor how it is truly going to make their life better. This is of course assuming from my point of view that the main reasons teenagers have abortions is because they cannot *provide for the baby or do not want to.
So basically I do not agree with it. I would say that they could use that money to give better and more intensive sex education in schools and to make the morning after pill and other forms of birth control methods more freely available
Maybe I should have explained better. I understand their connection. I just dont think its a real one. Also, they really havent thought about the other side of it. Teens thinking it's ok to have a kid because now they have a plan! They can finish high school and go to college. I've actually heard kids make this stupid plan just because the school had a day care. I can imagine their reasoning now that they've got money too! And I agree, do you know some health insurances wont even pay for birth control? I think it's ridiculous.
My professor was talking about how at her school (where she completed her internship), the insurance will pay for viagra but not birth control. Oh, and yes, in rural communities and the more conservative places, sometimes the law allows the pharmacist to decide what they will and will not sell (as far as contraceptives go). And if you've got a pharmacist who doesnt believe in plan b, he/she doesn't have to sell it.
I agree with you. It somehow makes the whole, being a teen and being pregnant more acceptable, because now the state also thinks it is ok.
I didn't realise that some health insurance won't pay for it (That is pretty shocking), but I have read about women that have problem finding emergency contraception and other contraception when needed.
The whole thing sounds pathetic to me.
Well she thought it was more of a gender bias than promoting sex vs. safe sex. If it is basic sexism, there isnt much logic. Yeah, I think the law needs to be changed too. The thing is, if you've got money, you have choices. You can drive or whatever and get the plan b. It's usually the people with no money, who can least afford a child, who really get hurt with these stupid laws.
That is sickening.So promoting sex i.e. selling viagra is ok, but promoting safe sex and preventing unwanted pregnancies is not? I'm shocked at the logic that is used in places like this.
I think that whole law regarding that should be revised. I actually also know of one or two women who couldn't even get plan B in some upper class normal pharmacy. Jeez.
Yes, and it is usually those people who really do not need a child or to get pregnant in the first place, but who do not really have other options.
