Article- Teens Should Have Access to Emergency Contraception Without Parental Consent
Kelly, Maura. "Teens Should Have Access to Emergency Contraception Without Parental Consent."
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Annotation- I strongly agree with what the author in this article is talking about. The controversy the author Lauren Maura applauds is the, "recent legal decision to allow seventeen-year-old girls to obtain emergency contraception without a prescription from a doctor(Maura)." The point she defends very well is that conservatives under the Bush administration held off approving emergency contraceptives because their views were purely based on,"...the mistaken belief that emergency contraception is tantamount to abortion—which it is not(Maura)." I personally believe that girls should be entitled to protecting themselves whenever they really need it. You should have to wait to become an "adult" before you can make those important decisions that will affect your life forever. In the end, women should have every right to purchase emergency contraceptives whenever they need too in order to help better their life and not bring a person into the world they can't take care of.
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