High schools and community colleges could be doing more to educate young people
about their contraceptive options, but their efforts need to be supplemented with good online resources.
«There is an ongoing national debate
about contraceptive coverage requirements in private health plans in the U.S.,» says lead author Michelle Moniz, M.D., an OB / GYN and researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation clinical scholar.
«Bodyzone» is the gimmick name given to a youth clinic distributing contraceptive and abortifacient drugs, and children are urged to attend sessions with names like «Speakeasy» where they are assured that parents and teachers will not be
told about the contraceptive equipment they are getting.
For, in a day when our new
knowledge about contraceptives and sexual technique is supposed to pave the way to the pleasures of sex without anxiety and guilt, people are experiencing a gnawing disappointment, a new anxiety.
Researchers surveyed those women again after they had reviewed the fact sheet and found significant improvement in
knowing about contraceptives.
Women enrolled in Intervention 2 received the same care as the first intervention, as well as
education about contraceptives through an online media campaign.
Specifically, we need to educate
women about their contraceptive choices (many don't know about IUDs, and those who do are often misinformed about their safety and effectiveness), make them available at no cost to the recipient, and train the medical community on the best clinical practices.
Health Canada has supported this policy on the grounds that «pharmacists are well - positioned to play a major role in... providing
counselling about contraceptive options.»
I'm so tired of people whining and
complaining about contraceptives and their purposes... whether it be for family plannign issues OR to treat a «medical condition» for women that just an't suck it up and toughen up.
«Women need accurate information about their coverage and
about their contraceptive options so that they can obtain whatever contraceptive method best meets their needs.
It's
about ALL contraceptives.
Why shouldn't every evangelical leader do what the Catholics are doing — start circulating to our own mailing lists explaining why this issue is NOT
about contraceptives; it is about religious freedom.
If you'd like more information
about contraceptives and their uses, contact Planned Parenthood, where a clinician can provide you with more information about birth control pills and other contraceptive choices.
But when young people choose not to abstain from sexual intercourse and when they do not have accurate information
about contraceptives, including where to obtain them and how to use them they are also facing serious sexual health risks (e.g., unintended pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections) that will affect their future as adults.