Planned Parenthood
By Pratiksha Singh
I have mixed feeling about Planned Parenthood. Planned
Parenthood is an organization that helps with healthcare, sex education as well
as family planning. They are known worldwide and are one of the most trusted sources
of reproductive healthcare. I don’t think that teenage pregnancy should be encouraged but at the same time the girls that do get pregnant should have somewhere to go if that did happen. Although kids my age and even younger should not have sex without protection, most of them still do. I am not saying that this is okay but it is good for there to be somewhere that they can get birth control to try and prevent a pregnancy. The birth control pill is not free if you get it from Planned Parenthood; it usually costs 15-20 dollars a month depending on your health care.
Most parents don’t put their daughters on birth control because they don’t
think their children are sexually active and a lot of kids are not open about
being sexually active to their parents. Planned parenthood gives young girls
the opportunity to avoid getting pregnant. It is a safe place where they can go
and don’t have to be worried about getting into trouble or getting punished.
Planned parenthood is also good for women that can’t afford birth control.
There are multiple ways of getting birth control, through a patch, from the
pill, from a ring, from a sponge and from a patch.
[Planned parenthood not only is helpful with
birth control but it is helpful with abortion, the morning after pill, sex
education and many more things.
[I
don’t think that its wrong that Planned Parenthood provides young women the
option of being able to get birth control. If a girl is sexually active and is
not comfortable with telling her parents then I think its better to be safe
instead of continuing to have sex and not be on the pill. Being afraid to talk
to your parents about your sexual life is very common, a lot of parents are not
accepting to the fact that their child is sexually active. Planned parenthood
gives girls the option of taking steps to try and be as safe as possible. I
definitely think that going behind your parents back is not the right thing to
do but most girls don’t want to stop being sexually active so the next step is
practicing safe sex. Although Planned Parenthood sounds very helpful some
people think they send the wrong message and they just say things to make
themselves look good. They may leave out details when talking to teens about
sex and the risks of certain medications.
A
lot of people also think teens or women should just abstain from sex and that
would avoid having to take birth control all together.
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