I saw a story the other day about NJ moving to a "graduated license" for teens. Basically if you're under 18 years of age you can't get a full license. There's a limit to how many people you can have in your car, you have to put a sticker on your license plate, I think they said something about a curfew. etc. Basically if you're under 18 you're not mature enough to make the right judgements on how to behave behind the wheel is the message that the state of NJ (and some other states as well) is sending.....OK
If you're under 18 years of age you can't buy adult beverages.
If you're under 18 years of age you can't vote.
Can't buy cigarette's.
Can't buy cold medicine.
Can't get a hunting license or buy a gun.
Why? Well obviously the message is that you're not mature enough to handle these kinds of adult decisions and responsibilities........OK
But you ARE mature enough to make THIS decision for yourself?
So sad.
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....Perhaps most ironically, can't even get in to see a movie about sex (xxx) at seventeen.
However...
Seventeen, eighteen what's the difference, those darkies can't think for themselves anyhow. They don't know no better, so why not just give them a year head start to decimate their community. Sure we will lose a few fine white babies here and there as collateral damage but that will have to be price we pay to accomplish our goal of thinning the crop of the negroe race.
'Donkey have you lost your god dam effin mind"
No siree bob, just repeating the original mission statement of Planned Parenthood.
....and they've done nothing since to prove otherwise that they are a racist and murderous organization.
Excellent post about a tragic and sad situation.
It's true that 17 year olds can't buy cigarettes, but they can buy condoms, and that's what we're discussing: contraception.
Are 17 year olds mature enough to make the decision whether or not to have sex? Maybe not, and yet they do have to make that decision. And some of them will choose to have sex, teenagers being a horny bunch as a rule. So, since teen pregnancy generally isn't considered a good thing, and society has an interest in minimizing it, they should have access to contraception, including emergency contraception.
I note that the article says that the FDA medical examiners wanted to remove all age restrictions and this makes sense to me. 13-17 years olds probably shouldn't have sex, but they sure as hell aren't ready to be parents if they do.
Did Gary make another boom boom?
Overall he's wrong of course but in the game of debate his opening sentence has put him in the lead. He must be juicing.
Donkey i'm surprised at you. Gary makes a point, but not the one he thinks he's making.
It's NOT about contraception. If it was about contraception then condoms are the way to go because they prevent pregnancy AND disease. It's about ABORTION. These womens groups don't give a shit about the children who will be using this stuff or else they would be fighting to prosecute men who have sex with young girls and then take them to abortion clinics. Instead they make it easier for pedophiles to take advantage of these girls.
It's also about having NO consequences at all for immoral behavior. In fact, i predict that this pill will lead to MORE teen pregnancy and MORE STDs.
Just like a wise man predicted to me in the early 90's that giving out condoms in school would lead to MORE teen pregnancy and MORE STDs. He was right of course and I was trying to argue the other side because I'm not very intelligent.
I am however very smart. There's a difference.
It's about abortion? Did you read the article?
"Plan B is emergency contraception that contains a high dose of birth control drugs and will not interfere with an established pregnancy. It works by preventing ovulation or fertilization. In medical terms, pregnancy begins when a fertilized egg attaches itself to the wall of the uterus."
Now I am well aware that some people, on religious grounds, think that pregnancy begins before implantation. And the article notes:
"Critics of the contraceptive say Plan B is the equivalent of an abortion pill because it can prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterus. Recent research suggests that's possible but not likely."
Some people on the religious right even oppose birth control pills taken before sex, because on very rare occassions it can prevent implantation. But generally it prevents ovulation and fertilization.Hell, on very rare occassions the pill doesn't even prevent pregnancy, hence the term "pill babies."
I don't agree that giving out condoms has caused more teen sex. I think that is a case of post hoc ergo propter hoc (after therefore because of). Perhaps you haven't noticed but we live in a very sexualized culture.
Personally, I think teens should be counseled to wait on having sex until they are more mature, and to use contraception if they do have sex. Basically a no-brainer.
Oh well if it says it's about contraception then obviously that's what it's about.... i believe everything i read that agrees with my preconcieved notions.....
anyway. it's about abortion.
I am not saying that the increased access to condoms is the ONLY factor in the increase in teen pregnancy, but if you were paying attention then, the pitch was that it would result in a decrease in teen pregnancy and the spread of stds. Clearly that isn't the case.
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