Teen Pregnancy and Birth Control Essay

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    prevent teen pregnancy, the numbers of unintended teen pregnancies are drastically falling. Items such as, birth control, condoms, and more education on safe sex are promoting women to wait to have a child until later in life. Many individuals disagree with women becoming pregnant at a young age. As well as, people point out the advantages of preventing teen pregnancy, like keeping children in school. Multiple authors will be assisting pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of preventing teen pregnancies, as well as credited along the way. Each author 's different views, and their own ways to prevent pregnancy will be contained throughout the essay. Advantages along the topic will be stated, as followed…

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    Birth Control Savior About half the pregnancies in the united states of america are accidental with inconsistent us and non use of birth control being the leading causes for women. Statistics show that teen pregnancy rates have dropped 79% lower that than of other foreign countries, such as Europe and Australia. Since birth control has been with the rising rate of raising teen pregnancy in to public schools systems their should be some kind of prevention stepping in public schools benefits…

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    of one’s desires especially growing up as a teen. Being told what to do and what not to do constantly creates the rebellious attitude many gain, which in turn leads to trying things in unknown territories. One thing leads to another and that teen wakes up, forced to face the responsibilities of an adult due to a mistake they wish they had not made. Contraception is the deliberate use of techniques to avoid pregnancy and ultimately prevent mistakes that are often made. Condoms, birth control, and…

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    the “use of a range of methods of fertility regulation to help individuals or couples avoid unplanned pregnancies.” Although teenage pregnancy rates have decreased due to improved contraceptive usage, Santelli at el. (2007) found that the United States still has high rates of teen pregnancy compared to other developed countries. This law creates a public health issue because prohibiting adolescents from receiving…

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    Teen Pregnancy is all around the world and us. A lot of teenagers are having babies and they are still babies themselves. They cannot financially take care of kids because they do not have any money, and also they are being taking care of by their parents. The result for this not happening most teens should be on birth control. Some teens don’t want their parents knowing that they are having sexual intercourse, they should get birth control over the counter. Although birth control isn’t allowed…

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    “Young women who avoid unintended pregnancy are more likely to stay in school, participate in the work force and have healthier, better-educated children.” – Unknown. Although the teen pregnancy rate in the U.S. has fallen within the last two decades, in “2004 it was more than twice that of Canada and Australia, more than 50% higher than Great Britain’s and seven times higher than Japan” (“Does learning about birth control in school help prevent teen pregnancy?”). Experts need to come to an…

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    Every year up sixty-two percent of women in the United States use some form of birth control, according to a 2006-2010 study (Jones). In 1950 a lady in her late eighties, named Margaret Sanger, wrote the research for the first human birth control pill, raising up to fifteen thousand dollars for the research for the project. The first oral contraceptive was approved by the FDA ten years later. In 1972, The Supreme Court legalized the use of birth control for couples who are married in the United…

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    The country with the highest teen pregnancy rate is America, for every 1,000 teens 57 will be pregnant before 20. The second highest is New Zealand where for every 1,000 teens 51 will become pregnant between 15-19. So why is this number so high not just in our country but worldwide(Sedgh)? We can easily blame the teens for not sustaining abstinence, but this doesn’t prevent the problem. Taking preventive action is the only way to decrease these statistics, because expecting all teens to remain…

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    “Parenthood is the leading reason that teen girls drop out of school. More than 50% of teen mothers never graduate from high school. And nearly 750,000 teen pregnancies occur each year.” (DoSomething) If birth control was offered over the counter many regulations would need to be set into place to ensure the safety of women because there is negative correlations that may come with the positive risk. Birth control methods should be offered over the counter without a prescription because it would…

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    when talking about it with teens. Most parents would hope their kids will wait till marriage or when they are an adult who understand and is ready for it. When teens come of age it's time for them to hear the ‘birds and the bees’ talk. It may be embarrassing for them to talk about sex with their parents and also getting insight on how their parents were when they were young and fun. Students need sex ed to learn about sexual transmitted diseases, the myths that surround sex, precautions when…

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