The Importance Of Birth Control In Schools

The United States of America is a country with a large concentration of immigrants, with their own culture and believes. For many family’s talking to their children about sex or to be more specific birth control is not accepted. The information about birth control, most of the under age children are receiving comes from school, or friends. Schools sexual education class provides students with information on abstinence and the use of condoms, we should also be educating them on the use of birth control pills. The majority of the students know how to practice safe sex but lack the necessary tools to do so. Birth control pills should be over the counter, with no parental consent required, and at affordable price. To begin with, currently there is two popular forms of birth control, any one can walk into a pharmacy and buy, condoms, and the day after pill. According to current regulations, anyone wishing to buy birth control pills needs a doctor prescription regardless of age. California and Oregon have adopting laws that allows women to …show more content…
We need to start by amending our current sex education class, it is important for boys and girls to take the class in separate class rooms, this will allow them to feel more countable asking questions and have all the necessary information to make an educated decision. Currently, in most states under age man and women can obtain free condoms at school, or at their local community clinic this option should also become available for hormonal birth control. “Only Texas and Utah forbid giving teens birth control without parent’s consent at state-funded clinics, in Texas not even young parents can get birth control without parent’s permission” (Garrett). Low cost birth control will help ensure all under age women are able to purchase hormonal birth control, no matter the state they live in or if they have health