Persuasive Essay On Teenage Pregnancy

Teenage girls want to be loved and accepted by their parents or guardians by any means possible. For many girls, their mother is their role model growing up, mothers teach their daughters how to be beautiful and respectful. A father teaches their daughter that they are strong and no one can bring them down. Every day many teenage girls have an accidental pregnancy. Some soon to be teenage moms are lucky to be growing up in loving and supporting families that will help take care of the developing fetus in the teen’s belly; however that is not always the case in all families. Parents may not accept their teen if they become pregnant at a young age. Depending on the background of the families, some teen moms are in fear of telling their parents they are pregnant because they may live in an abusive household and teens in that situation will do anything they can to resolve their “problem” before their parents find out. Teens can also be a victim of rape or incest and they may want to have an abortion in fear of having to deal with their predator later down the road. Any clinic that specializes in abortions, should allow teenage girls to have an abortion without parental …show more content…
They also offer free medical attention. Planned Parenthood is willing to administer free and confidential STD, HIV, pregnancy tests, multiple forms of birth control and talk to the youth about sex education. If someone is under 18 years old they may need to have parental consent to have an abortion (Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc. 2014). Although, not all Planned Parenthood’s may not be able to give abortions to any teen that walks in but they are able to administer many forms or birth control methods to the teen. Helping teens gain access to legitimate facilities such as Planned Parenthood will help teenage girls have lower chance of becoming