Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Prescribing Minors with Emergency Contraception. It needs to be at least 2000 words.Download file to see previous pages... These cited percentages

Hello, I am looking for someone to write an essay on Prescribing Minors with Emergency Contraception. It needs to be at least 2000 words.

These cited percentages are gathered from the Alan Guttmacher Institute, from 1990-1999. If these statistical records are traced back to 1972 to compare how pregnancy rates for teenage girls have changed, it is found that there is a dramatic increase from 1972 to 1986. According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute (2000), teen pregnancy was at 62.4% in 1972 which gradually increased to 72.5% in 1980. Progressing along through the next eight years, at 1986 it was found to be at 69,6% and 1988 marked 74.4%, then hitting the year 2000 showed a impressive decrease which is found to be 48.2%. Although this is still almost half the teenage population, it is obvious there is a great variation in the percentile from 1990 to 2000.

Some people might view the decline in teen pregnancy as being due to proper sex education in schools taking place. Yet others might consider the decline to be stemming from the fact of emergency contraception. One such medical element that is considered to fit this profile is the, "morning after pill". There has been quite a bit of controversy over this emergency contraceptive pill and many nurses, pharmacists, and doctors have lost their jobs or removed themselves from their location of employment due to their non-agreement with making it readily available for teenage girls. Many view sex education in school, and the emergency contraceptive issues as ones that over step their bounds, in regards to the parent/child relationship. It should be the parents place to decide if their 15 year old daughter needs sexual protection, not the school systems, nor the health clinics, where they can readily go and ask for the morning after pill or condoms.

Quite a bit of disagreement is due to how easy the FDA wants to make it for teenage girls to be able to get (WorldNet Daily 2003). Those in legislative seats who approve or disapprove of these new drugs want to especially see this pill made available for over the counter while others do not, due to the ethical ramifications. One of the main issues for those not wanting to allow it to be provided over the counter is the idea that it gives off the wrong message to teenagers such as, promiscuity is o.k. The fear of rising sexually transmitted diseases is another sliding scale issue in this equation. It is claimed that allowing such easy access to an emergency contraceptive, like this one, for teenage kids, will cause STD's to rise quite considerably.

Sexually transmitted diseases pose more of a threat to a teen's body, more so than an unwanted pregnancy could possibly ever do.

In 2004, Maria Bizecki was fired from her position as a pharmacist due to the fact that she failed to provide the morning after pill to a young teenage girl. Her stand on the issue was pertaining to the ethical and social matters involved with filling prescriptions of the pill to minors (Western Catholic Reporter 2004). Maria is opposed to offering drugs such as the morning after pill to destroy unborn life.