Now the nation’s leading pediatrics organization is encouraging doctors to also talk to teenagers about the morning-after pill — and to send girls home with prescriptions for emergency contraception, just in case.
AAP Recommends Morning After Pill RX be Given to 17 y.o.’s in Advance
December 3, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on Monday called on the nation’s pediatricians to counsel all of their adolescent patients about emergency contraception and make advance prescriptions for it available to girls under 17.
Educating African Girls About Puberty may Raise School Attendance
November 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
A new study shows that simple, low-cost interventions can help teenage girls in Africa stay in school during their monthly periods.
Study: Girls on Synthetic Birth Control Less Likely to Use Condoms
October 17, 2012 by 2 Comments
Young women who start using hormonal contraceptives for birth control often stop using condoms, but a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health finds that if they later discontinue using hormonal contraceptives, they tend not to resume using condoms. This leaves them open to both unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Study: Abortion Rates Amongst Teens Slashed with Free Contraceptives
October 11, 2012 by Leave a Comment
What would happen if women at risk for unintended pregnancies received the birth control of their choice — especially the more effective kinds — at no cost?
Forcing Girls to Take Pregnancy Tests for School?
August 12, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Delhi Charter School in Delhi, Louisiana — a policy that the institution enforces by requiring students who are “suspected” of being pregnant to submit to a mandatory pregnancy test.
Teens Still Having Risky Sex According to CDC
July 29, 2012 by Leave a Comment
CDC is slamming unmarried women and teens over risky sex and unintended pregnancies. Where are the men in this conversation? Am wondering which Pharma company sponsored this study. The ones who want every teen to get the HPV vaccines, Gardasil or Cervarix – or the ones who want to inject or implant synthetic hormones into every teen girl – even if she is not having sex.
Disturbing New Trend: Putting Teens on Synthetic Hormone Drips to Prevent Pregnancy
June 4, 2012 by 5 Comments
Holy Hormones Honey! Are we risking our daughter’s fertility by putting them on Implanon – a synthetic hormonal drip placed in a woman’s arm for 3 years? The trend in birth control is moving in this direction. More effective – yet a potentially dangerous synthetic birth control with unknown long-term results. Birth control is the largest uncontrolled medical experiment in history.
Under this news story is a blog post by a young woman who had to have the stick taken out and replaced. Read her ordeal. Her muscles actually grew around the Implanon stick – virtually making the device a part of her arm.
New Trend – Women Controlled by Birth Control?
May 24, 2012 by Leave a Comment
[Holy Hormones Honey! Study shows that women on the pill are 20 times more likely to get pregnant. Well, no surprise here... since human nature is involved. Aaah.... beware of the wolf in sheep's clothing and the fear and manipulation of women to get on a birth control method that drips synthetic hormones into their Continue Reading …
Study: Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Leaves Young Adults Misinformed About Birth Control
May 20, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Sixty percent of young adults between the ages of 18 and 29 may not truly understand how proper use of contraception can prevent pregnancy, according to a new study from the Guttmacher Institute, which reports abstinence-only sex education may be leaving young adults with a subpar understanding of sexual health.
