<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jaded</div><div class="ubbcode-body">are these good reasons <span style="font-weight: bold">not</span> to make it more widely available?
may encourage promiscuity
may be used by prostitution rings
may be used by sexual predators </div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">By Sarah Rubenstein
The FDA is ready to allow 17-year-olds to get the “morning after” pill without a prescription, marking the latest stage in a long saga over use of the drug.
Back in 2006, the FDA gave the go-ahead to over-the-counter sale of the emergency contraceptive, known as Plan B, for women 18 and older after three years of delays in which there were angry protests by pro-choice groups and alleged back-room arm-twisting by conservatives close to the Bush White House. But the FDA said then the drug would remain prescription-only for those 17 and younger.
Sales of the drug, sold by Barr Pharmaceuticals (now a unit of Teva), rose briskly, even while women 18 and over were required to show ID to get it and some pharmacists raised moral objections to dispensing it. The drug reduces the risk of pregnancy by as much as 89% when taken within 72 hours after unprotected sex.
Last month, a federal judge ordered the FDA to allow sales of Plan B to women 17 years and older without a prescription, and slammed several current and former FDA officials for their handling of the matter, accusing them of using “political considerations, delays and implausible justifications” to hold up the nonprescription sales of the drug. In court papers, the government denied that politics played a role, according to the Associated Press.
An FDA official said today the agency will let 17-year-olds buy the drug over the counter, the AP reports. An announcement is expected later today, the AP says, adding that the company first has to submit a request to the agency before the drug will be available to 17-year-olds without a prescription.
Still unclear is whether the agency will lift all age restrictions on the drug. The judge had told the FDA to “reconsider” its decision restricting over-the-counter sales to anyone.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jaded</div><div class="ubbcode-body">are these good reasons <span style="font-weight: bold">not</span> to make it more widely available?
may encourage promiscuity
may be used by prostitution rings
may be used by sexual predators </div></div>
NO, none of them are. Not wanting to undermine the sanctity of human life, I find it hard to understand the logic (I there is any) of these people anyway.
i don't understand why they tink access to the MAP will have an impact any of those scenario..dat is wan piece of backwards reasoning cause in any of the scenarios described if no MAP is available the woman would probably end up having an abortion if
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ayanna_Skelly</div><div class="ubbcode-body">bout time... i tihnk 16 y o's should have access to it too... </div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ayanna_Skelly</div><div class="ubbcode-body">bout time... i tihnk 16 y o's should have access to it too... </div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Jaded</div><div class="ubbcode-body">are these good reasons <span style="font-weight: bold">not</span> to make it more widely available?
may encourage promiscuity
may be used by prostitution rings
may be used by sexual predators </div></div>
de way mii seet iss dat dem target blakk peeps fe use diss fii cantrol blakk population
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ayanna_Skelly</div><div class="ubbcode-body">bout time... i tihnk 16 y o's should have access to it too... </div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ayanna_Skelly</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Ayanna_Skelly</div><div class="ubbcode-body">bout time... i tihnk 16 y o's should have access to it too... </div></div>
iff dem gitt dem parent parmission </div></div>
which 16 y o gwen ask dem parents permission? </div></div>
givinn medical jugs fii yuths shooood require nooootiffication soo de parents can praperlee counsel dem yuths. dem ting usuallee affect younga peeps diffarantlee cah dem bodee iss still maturinn
bout time... i tihnk 16 y o's should have access to it too... </div></div>
iff dem gitt dem parent parmission </div></div>
which 16 y o gwen ask dem parents permission? </div></div>
givinn medical jugs fii yuths shooood require nooootiffication soo de parents can praperlee counsel dem yuths. dem ting usuallee affect younga peeps diffarantlee cah dem bodee iss still maturinn
<span style="font-size: 14pt">Half Of Sexually Experienced Teenage Women In Jamaica Report Sexual Coercion - <span style="color: #FF0000">Nearly All Pregnancies Unintended</span></span>
Forty-nine percent of 15-17-year-old women in Kingston, Jamaica, who were interviewed to identify risk factors for teen pregnancy reported having experienced sexual coercion or violence, and one-third stated that they had been persuaded or forced to participate in their first sexual experience. Though young women who had experienced sexual violence were not more likely than those who had not to be pregnant, these alarming numbers reflect the widespread prevalence of gender-based violence in Jamaica.
The study also found that 94% of the pregnant teens interviewed reported that their pregnancies were unintended. These findings, suggest authors Joy Noel Baumgartner of Family Health International et al., demonstrate a strong need for increased education and services for young people in Jamaica to help reduce the country's high rates of unplanned teen pregnancy and gender-based violence.
Efforts to empower young women are key to addressing these problems, according to the authors. The study found a significant link between unequal relationships and pregnancy risk: Compared with their peers who had never been pregnant, adolescents who were pregnant were more likely to have had a first sexual partner who was at least five years older, to have low self-esteem and to believe contraception is solely a woman's responsibility. Among teens who were pregnant, those who had first had sex by age 14 were more likely to have had two or more partners than those who had first sex at a later age.
In addition, pregnant young women were less likely to report having used contraceptives the first time they had sex than were teens who had never been pregnant. And among the pregnant teens who reported having used contraceptives at the time they became pregnant, 87% said that they had relied on condoms. To help reduce pregnancy risk, the authors recommend that programs encourage teens to delay sex (if it is under their control) until they find a job or finish school, as well as educate sexually active young women on more reliable, hormonal contraceptive methods that can be used in combination with condoms.
The study, "The Influence of Early Sexual Debut and Sexual Violence on Adolescent Pregnancy: A Matched Case-Control Study in Jamaica," appears in the March 2009 issue of International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, formerly known as International Family Planning Perspectives. The name change, which coincides with the beginning of the journal's 35th year of publication, was made to better reflect the broad range of topics now covered in the journal.
The Guttmacher Institute advances sexual and reproductive health worldwide through social science research, policy analysis and public education.
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<span style="font-size: 14pt">Worst Environmental Problem? Overpopulation, Experts Say</span>
ScienceDaily (Apr. 20, 2009) — Overpopulation is the world’s top environmental issue, followed closely by climate change and the need to develop renewable energy resources to replace fossil fuels, according to a survey of the faculty at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF).
Just in time for Earth Day (April 22) the faculty at the college, at which environmental issues are the sole focus, was asked to help prioritize the planet’s most pressing environmental problems.
Overpopulation came out on top, with several professors pointing out its ties to other problems that rank high on the list.
“Overpopulation is the only problem,” said Dr. Charles A. Hall, a systems ecologist. “If we had 100 million people on Earth — or better, 10 million — no others would be a problem.” (Current estimates put the planet’s population at more than six billion.)
Dr. Allan P. Drew, a forest ecologist, put it this way: “Overpopulation means that we are putting more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than we should, just because more people are doing it and this is related to overconsumption by people in general, especially in the ‘developed’ world.”
“But, whether developed or developing,” said Dr. Susan Senecah, who teaches the history of the American environmental movement, “everyone is encouraged to ‘want’ and perceive that they ‘need’ to consume beyond the planet’s ability to provide.”
The ESF faculty pointed to climate change as the second most-pressing issue, with the need to develop renewable energy resources to replace fossil fuels coming in third.
“Experimenting with the earth’s climate and chemistry has great risks,” said Dr. Thomas E. Amidon, who invented a process for removing energy-rich sugars from wood and fermenting those sugars into ethanol. “This is a driver in climate change and loss of biodiversity and is a fundamental problem underlying our need to strive for sustainability.”
Rounding out the top 10 issues on the ESF list are overconsumption, the need for more sustainable practices worldwide, the growing need for energy conservation, the need for humans to see themselves as part of the global ecosystem, overall carbon dioxide emissions, the need to develop ways to produce consumer products from renewable resources, and dwindling fresh water resources.
Adapted from materials provided by SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, via Newswise.
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