PLN 18

Scanning the contents of the Denver Post blog, I happened across a very controversial article discussing the notion of introducing birth control pills in 12 school hosted clinics. This piece was known as “Do schools have birth-control role?”

As the teen pregnancy rate constantly rises, task force officials have proposed a campaign to stock 12 schools with a supply of birth control pills. This operation would target six Denver high schools, but also the equivalent amount of secondary schools.

Personally, I believe that the task force personnel should not attempt to define the conduct of a school’s clinic. Their proposal of adoption of such pills does not act in accordance with what I personally hold as true. This outrageous idea of supplying schools with such pills is preposterous, not only will the billing associated with this act will be seen to rise steadily at an alarming rate (last time I checked, birth control pills weren’t cheap; according to kidshealth.org, they cost $20 to $50 a month) but their presence will actually encourage more sexual related practices. After an extended period of time, schools may loose their valuable cash to an ineffective movement. The article stated that only “Of every 1,000 girls ages 15-17 in the city, 54.5 will become pregnant in the city, compared with 24.3 throughout Colorado”. When combined, for every 1000 girls, roughly 78.8 will face pregnancy at a young age, that’s not even ten percent. Schools which fund this pill fiasco will only waist their cash in vain, for not many will even depend on these pills. The bulk of the ordered medicine will most likely simply sit in confinement until they become invalid and must be discarded. What a waste!

Also, the presence of these pills may drive individuals to actually commit to a will to perform sexually oriented practices, isn’t that what we are trying to dilapidate? I do not visibly see the benefits associated with this waist; only a waist of money and increased levels of sexual practices will arise from this whole dim-witted project. The world needs to realize that its teenaged inhabitants are not adults; they should not be undertaking such adult situated practices. Why should we set their stages by adding birth control pills to our agendas? This will only encourage such practices; once teens understand the fact that they will be protected at their schools, they pursue the unimaginable. This increases the teen birth rate drastically, isn’t that what we have been collaborating against?

Indirectly, I have been introduced to the idea of teen sexual activity through books. The other characters always seemed so disheartened at the fact that their friends performed such madness. I have always sympathized with the downcast characters, for they did nothing truly wrong to provoke such events. Think about the reactions of friends and family when the news is broken, I would be visibly dead if I had a daughter who one day told me of my future grandchild. I do wish to forestall that event until she would be of legitimate age, so I do not favor this idea of adopting pills in schools.