BIRTH CONTROL IN SCHOOLS

1156 WD

Teenage pregnancy is very difficult for young woman to deal with; therefore contraception should be accessible in schools. Nowadays the rates of unwanted pregnancy at high schools are extremely high and grow every year, if more schools handed out contraceptives, this problem could potentially decrease. Even though some may agree with this idea, some totally disagree; thinking by handing out contraceptives will only encourage them to have sex. Another issue concerning some people is that by handing out contraceptives in school, is that if the parents need to give permission to do so or not. “However, most respondents in a 2007 AP poll stated that they felt a parent’s consent was