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Religions > Atheism |
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"Fredric L. Rice" |
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19 Jan 2005 08:21:32 AM |
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Team Sex. Woops! I mean Teen Sex. |
From The Associated Press, 1/18/05:
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-contraceptives-notification,0,1284836..story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines
Parental Notification May Not Curb Teen Sex
By LINDSEY TANNER
AP Medical Writer
CHICAGO --
Laws that would require parents to be notified when teens seek birth
control would do little to curb underage sex and could cause a
troubling number of girls to engage in unsafe intercourse, a survey of
teens in 33 states suggests.
Nearly one in five teen girls surveyed at federally funded family
planning clinics nationwide said they would either use no birth
control or unreliable methods, and only 7 percent said they would stop
having sex if parental-notification laws were enacted, according to
the study by The Alan Guttmacher Institute, an advocacy group that
supports reproductive choice.
The results, based on responses from 1,526 girls under the age of 18
who were given anonymous questionnaires, echo smaller, more local
studies.
The study appears in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical
Association.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: Team Sex. Woops! I mean Teen Sex. |
19 Jan 2005 08:56:17 PM |
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:21:32 GMT, (Fredric L.
Rice) said in alt.atheism:
Nearly one in five teen girls surveyed at federally funded family
planning clinics nationwide said they would either use no birth
control or unreliable methods, and only 7 percent said they would stop
having sex if parental-notification laws were enacted
It won't stop the fundies from demanding that such laws be enacted.
The fact that women would still have abortions, if unsafe abortions,
if abortion were made illegal doesn't stop them from trying to get it
criminalized.
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