Teenage girls are dealing with all sorts of “down there” bodily accoutrements, so I think they can read the instructions and understand what it all means. The idea that they need to see a doctor (and probably tell their parents) is nothing more than an attempt to make it difficult for them to use this without involving adult authority in their sexual behavior —- the very last thing they want to do. This form of birth control works when someone uses it immediately after unprotected sex. Making them go through hoops totally defeats the purpose.

If parents are worried that their girls are having sex without their knowledge, they need to wake up to the fact that they probably are. Requiring a prescription for this form of birth control will not change that, it just makes it more likely that their daughter will get pregnant. Why parents think that’s a good result I don’t know.

I’m all for parents talking about sex with their kids and passing on their values. But making teenagers bear children against their will for succumbing to the most natural, biological urge in human experience seems like a dreadful, superstitious value to me. Making it more likely that they’ll have an abortion seems like some kind of cosmic joke.

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[I]t always kind of amazes me that women are considered a discrete special interest that requires organized advocacy groups to labor on our behalf. We are half the population.