Birth Control Jasmine Pascua

Question: Should birth control be available to adolescent females?

Teen Pregnancy  29 births per 1000 teenage girls (2012)  305,420  1/5 repeated births  89% extramarital

School Distribution  New York  Plan B  53 schools – 40 no parental consent. 13 “opt-out”.  Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey  4,166 respondents (high school)  50% Sexually Experienced  > 50% had consistently used contraceptives  ¾ condoms  ¼ other (oral, injections, etc.)

Women Controlled Safe Sex “Aims to empower women to gain control of their sexual lives.” 5 Attributes:  Technology  Access to choices  Women at risk  “Condom migration”  Communication

Catholicism “A Culture of Death”  A mentality of the freedom from responsibility  Natural Family Planning (NFP)  Contraception is:  Insidious & dangerous  D.E.A.T.H.  Promiscuity > Extramarital sex > Abortions > Death

Nang Insing

Above all, society must learn to embrace once more the great gift of life, to cherish it, to protect it, and to defend it against the culture of death, itself an expression of the great fear that stalks our times... A society with a diminished sense of the value of human life at its earliest stages has already opened the door to a culture of death. — Pope John Paul II, October 1998.

Catholicism When American Catholics were asked:  Practice artificial contraception and still be a good catholic?  84% Yes 11% No 5% I don’t know  Disagree with the pope on issues and still be a good catholic?  83% Yes 13% No 4% I don’t know  Have you used a contraceptive method before (excluding NFP)?  98% Yes 2% No

“RELAX!” Sept. 2013

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