re: #28 imp_62

Whoa, whoa. Hang on.

The involvement of a parent/guardian with the healthcare of a minor child can be of benefit to the minor child. It is wrong to assume that every girl who might need Plan B does not have access to a parent/guardian with her best interests at heart.

Seriously? And it’s wrong to assume all of them do. And all that aside, what does that have to do with anything? You want to force young women to go to their parents because they had sex? For what? “Well, you’re only 13, but we really think you should consider letting yourself get knocked up”? Should they be forced to go to their parents if they want Tylenol?

As for being a chance to “discuss these issues”, that would most likely occur after the sex has happened, at which point it isn’t helping much.

I keep focusing on pregnancy because even banning Plan B isn’t going to stop the spread of sexual transmitted diseases. You’re trying to treat a symptom, not the illness. I’m honestly getting really turned off by your concern, which seems to be around reducing women’s choices in order to protect them from themselves. I mean, trying to teach young women about the importance of safe sex and watching out for disease is clearly not the solution. You may say you agree, but then you keep going back to how we can’t trust them to be taught properly.

See, here’s the thing. If you distrust kids so much to take safe sex lessons to heart, then do you really really think they’re going to take worrying about getting pregnant seriously? Restricting Plan B isn’t the way to fight that battle.

And finally, what about guys? They don’t have to deal with this. They can just screw everything they find and there’s no forced discussion with their parents as a gateway to emergency contraceptive. Sure, you mentioned them in passing, but I’m finding your using this in that manner to be extremely disturbing. You seem to be mostly worried about women and their sexual activities.

I’ll admit it, despite all your protestations, you come off to me as, for lack of a better term off the top of my head, a concern troll. The fact that you brought in the need to get parents involved sort of tilted me to that away from taking you seriously, since that’s not the argument you’ve been going with.

That and the fact that you’re so worried about these 12 year old kids with HIV screwing each other and how easier access to Plan B will just make it epidemic, but you’re not really worried about the 20 year old without an ID or an easy to reach doctor who had a condom break on her.