Should doctors be allowed to prescribe contraception for girls under the age of 16?
I think that doctors should be allowed to prescribe contraception to girls under 16 because it will promote safer sex practices and the teenage pregnancy/birth rate will be lowered. It’s quite ridiculous to think that teenagers shouldn’t be allowed contraception because in today’s society, teens are very ready to grow up and they’re going as fast as they can, and that includes sexual activity. Though these people are thought to be children, they’re far from it and they’re way more mature than they’re given credit for.
Girls of 16, and younger, are having sex. We can’t stop these girls from doing what they do. It has been repeatedly proven that providing contraception, or withholding it, doesn’t affect the number of girls participating in sexual activity. It only affects the number of girls participating safetly in sex. So, yes, doctors should be allowed to prescribe, and sex education should be given early and often and complete. We should all be ashamed and dismayed at the number of girls who don’t know that they can become pregnant, or infected with STD’s even if the boy doesn’t ejaculate. Our children can die because we get all squeamish about them being sexual and hiding our heads in the sand.
