Seventeen-year-olds will soon be allowed to buy “morning-after” contraceptive pills without a doctor’s prescription after federal drug regulators complied with a judge’s order and lowered the age limit by a year. 
The decision Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration, which overturns one of the most controversial health rulings of the Bush Administration, was scorned by anti-abortion advocates and hailed by their abortion rights counterparts. The long-running controversy involving Plan B, the emergency contraceptive, has had more of a political impact than a public health one. Since November 2006, when it became widely available to women 18 and over without a prescription, Plan B has had no measurable effect on the nation’s abortion or teenage pregnancy rates.
‘Morning After’ Pill Cleared for 17-Year-Olds – NYTimes.com
I don’t agree with this at all. Sorry.
I’m all for it. Doesn’t sound like a big deal in this age of anything goes.
I am all for this pill, it is a sad thing to see a young mother who is still a kid herself trying to raise a baby on her own. after all it is not a human being yet as it depends on the women to feed,nourish and breath for a fetus just as a respirator would do to someone who is sick………there are way to many young mothers who make a career out of having babies and getting money from the govt. to keep them.
@Dave What don’t you agree with?
That was kind of just a statment of fact. I think it’s a great thing, I think anyone who can take it without damaging themself should be allowed to. Make the act illegal not the cure.
I’m not sure how you don’t understand what I don’t agree with.
I don’t agree with the quoted part by the Food and Drug Administration.
The more we do things like this, the easier it is to push out kids off on some pharmacy to help them instead of getting to the root of the problem and talking to our kids. I talked to our kids, both of them. Many times.
Sorry, I don’t agree with allowing our children to go to the pharmacy when they should come to us.
JMHO
First of all I welcome everyone’s reply, this is a heated subject just as is giving birth control pills to minors and we all won’t agree. As a parent I see Dave’s point in wanting our children to come to us but in today’s society how many teens do that? And I’m talking all socioeconomic levels here. The United States has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy among the most developed countries in the world. We rank 37th in the world for Health Care and we pay the most. We obviously aren’t doing something right.
You need a prescription for it if you’re under 18?! Seriously? Isn’t there a time limit, like 72 hours? Who’d be able to get a prescription in that small window of time. It’s a good thing they’re changing it.
But doesn’t Plan B make things a bit too easy, meaning making it simpler to take a cavalier attitude (ie, “so if I make a mistake, I’ll just rely on the morning after pill”)? I agree that parents should talk to their children and keep talking, but as Elaine stated, depending on the socioeconomic level of the family, this ideal scenario often isn’t in the cards. Proper communication is the key.
Well, I’m certainly for it. Too many young mothers ill-equipped to handle the challenges.
Brenda