Should Birth Control Pills be Available to Teenage Girls Without Prescription?

Every teenager will soon hit that age, where they think sex will be to try. No matter the age or what the partner says, it is always best to be protected rather through condoms or birth control. Now there is no true answer for when a girl should start taking birth control, but it's always best to get at least idea. Sophomore, Ziayre Berry believes 13 years of age.

“About age 16,” Dylan Schaefer said.

According to dosomething.org, “3 in 10 American girls will get pregnant before age 20. In a total that over 750,000 pregnancies every year.” As of the year 2007, 35% of US high school students were currently sexually active and about 48% of US high students reported already having sexual intercourse. Could these percentages be too high? Ziayre thinks it is.

Dylan said, “yes, it’s due to the lack of protection in sex.”

Siblings and friends could have an influence on sex. Maybe even social media is in there. With all the things that celebrities talk on television and social media, it would not be much of a surprise. Most kids and teenagers look up to their favorite stars, and think that if they are doing something it’s okay to do. Ziayre says it’s friends who have an influence.

“Yes, a study has showed younger siblings to have more sex than their older siblings.

Parents also tend to have a role to play in children’s lives. The way a child was raised can real affect the way that kid acts and how they think. Half of the ti, this is for the best but most of the time kids get the wrong impression from their parents.

Dylan says,”Yeah, kids sometimes don’t have anyone have to talk about things, and when they see their parent do something they think they can do it too.”

When it comes to sex and talking about it, parents are usually the ones to talk to but most kids are nervous to. According to plannedparenthood.org, “50% of all teens feel uncomfortable talking with their parents about sex compared to just 19 percent of parents who feel uncomfortable talking with their teens, according to the survey, which is the first to reveal that parents are much more at ease than their teens when it comes to discussing sex.”

Dylan says, “because their parents will shelter them and not let them go out.”

After all this talk of teen pregnancies, and influences towards sex, the point that is trying to be made is should birth control be purchased over the counter? Ziayre says it should be over the counter.

“Birth control should be over the counter like condoms,” says Dylan.