Should Teenage Girls Have The Right to Access Plan B?
When people think of birth control they tend to think of all of the harm that it can do to a female’s body, but birth control is not as bad as people make it out to be. A form of birth control that many are probably unaware of is Plan B an emergency contraception. Plan B, also known as the “morning after pill”, is a pill that a woman can take to help prevent pregnancy after unprotected sexual intercourses. Other reasons women would use Plan B are: if the condom breaks, forgetting to take the birth control pills, if forced to have sex. Plan B is called the “morning after pill”, but you do not have to wait until the morning after to take it. The sooner you take plan B the more effective it is! Plan B is “a one-dose regimen: you take one pill. The pill contains 1.5 milligrams of levonorgestrel, which is used in lower doses in many birth control pills” (WebMD par. 1). Teenage girls should be able to access Plan B because the health issues for Plan B are not any worse than any other medications we take, it does not encourage irresponsible sexual behaviors and it helps decrease the teen pregnancy rate.
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4). Terry O’Neill feels “to deny them their healthcare rights as defined by the courts is as wrong as obstructing any other civil right” ( Access to.. par. 3). Dr. Tracey Wilkinson and a couple people she worked with called nine hundred forty-three pharmacies in Nashville, Philadelphia, Austin, Portland, and Cleveland. If Plan B was approved for teenage girls around the time of April 30, 2013 then the teen pregnancy rate should have decreased increasingly since then. Considering the fact that Plan B One-Step was made available for teenage girls in April of
When people think of birth control they tend to think of all of the harm that it can do to a female’s body, but birth control is not as bad as people make it out to be. A form of birth control that many are probably unaware of is Plan B an emergency contraception. Plan B, also known as the “morning after pill”, is a pill that a woman can take to help prevent pregnancy after unprotected sexual intercourses. Other reasons women would use Plan B are: if the condom breaks, forgetting to take the birth control pills, if forced to have sex. Plan B is called the “morning after pill”, but you do not have to wait until the morning after to take it. The sooner you take plan B the more effective it is! Plan B is “a one-dose regimen: you take one pill. The pill contains 1.5 milligrams of levonorgestrel, which is used in lower doses in many birth control pills” (WebMD par. 1). Teenage girls should be able to access Plan B because the health issues for Plan B are not any worse than any other medications we take, it does not encourage irresponsible sexual behaviors and it helps decrease the teen pregnancy rate.
Every type of medication that …show more content…
4). Terry O’Neill feels “to deny them their healthcare rights as defined by the courts is as wrong as obstructing any other civil right” ( Access to.. par. 3). Dr. Tracey Wilkinson and a couple people she worked with called nine hundred forty-three pharmacies in Nashville, Philadelphia, Austin, Portland, and Cleveland. If Plan B was approved for teenage girls around the time of April 30, 2013 then the teen pregnancy rate should have decreased increasingly since then. Considering the fact that Plan B One-Step was made available for teenage girls in April of