Birth control prescriptions increase by 93% – among children
While overall pediatric prescriptions declined, the use of certain drugs increased: asthma medications, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) drugs and birth control pills….
In 2010, a total of 263.6 million prescriptions were given to U.S. kids… a 7% reduction since 2002. Among the drugs that declined in use: antibiotic prescriptions, which fell by 14%, though antibiotics were still the most frequently dispensed medications for kids; allergy meds, which dropped by 61%; cough and cold drugs, down by 42%; pain meds, down by 14%; and depression medications, which fell by 5%….
Contraceptive prescriptions rose 93%, but the researchers note that national surveys have not found much of an increase among girls taking birth control pills in the last 20 years. The rise could reflect an increase in the duration of use or an increase in use for other reasons like acne treatment.
~ Alexandra Sifferlin, Time’s Healthland, June 18
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
We really owe girls and women better than throwing artificial hormones at them to fix acne, for crying out loud.
The repercussions of birth control use will probably not fully be known for a very long time, and even if they do become known to science, will the information be publicized? There are few warnings even now on the possible cancerous effects from oral contraceptives.
We have thrown our children under the bus. It’s disgusting.
Here’s some acne medication. It’s really a birth control pill, but I’m just giving it to you for your acne. So, you know…only use it for that reason, OK?
there are better ways of dealing with acne…especially better than a pill that messes with your natural cycle and can have dangerous side effects!
I have a friend who told me she put her 15 year old on the pill to “help clear her acne.”
I asked her if she was trying to fool me or if her kid had her fooled. Her child had less acne at 15 than I did at 40. It just so happened a young MAN started hanging out quite often after this. Needless to say the this young man brought A LOT of heartache into this child’s life.
“Acne” and “cramps” were the excuse I used as a teenager to get my mom to put me on the pill without telling her I was having sex (shame on me, I know…)
Ironically, the pill made my acne worse.
Hey, maybe since teenage boys get lots of acne, more condoms will start being passed out.
Oh, I have an even better one, Anonymous. They’re judgeMENTAL people. Get it? Not only are they judging people, unlike us, but they’re also mental as in psychologically disturbed. I tell ya, the more clever and witty remarks I can come up with, the more sure I am of my position and the less I feel the need to ever engage anyone in substantive dialogue. All I gotta do is leave a short quip to these benighted folk, making sure to tout my superior intellect, and then call it a day.
Hi Bobby.
Yes, those bold commenters of superior intellect who don’t leave their names are always appreciated.
P.S. – Anonymous comments will be deleted.
Censorship! You can’t handle the truth! Not that truth exists, but still, you can’t handle it!
*sigh*
I need to get out more.
Bobby – yes.
Censorship! You can’t handle the truth! Not that truth exists, but still, you can’t handle it!
Okay. That is a classic. I am stealing it for later use.
Bobby, thank you for that. You make an awesome fake troll. :D
Indeed, Bobby’s fake trolling is far more interesting than any of the real trolling around here.
Thank you, all. I seem to have found my true calling.
I know of teenage girls who are being forced to use birth control pills, Depo Provera shots, or implants by their parents, foster parents, group homes, etc. They are not being given a choice by those in authority. They’re told that they have to be on it. I even heard people “joke” about putting it in thieir kids’ food.
Joanne says:
June 24, 2012 at 12:43 am
I know of teenage girls who are being forced to use birth control pills, Depo Provera shots, or implants by their parents, foster parents, group homes, etc. They are not being given a choice by those in authority. They’re told that they have to be on it. I even heard people “joke” about putting it in thieir kids’ food.
(Denise) In the first “Divorce Court” back in the 1970s, a mother admitted putting the Pill in her teen daughter’s food. The daughter was dating. The mother was uncertain as to whether or not she was engaging in partnered sex but she said plaintively, “Does any mother ever really KNOW?”
Those teen girls are psychologically immature but their bodies are well able to get pregnant. Those parents and guardians are probably thinking it is better safe than sorry.
Isn’t it better a teen girl be on contraceptives than that she have an abortion?
Or have a baby she is unprepared to raise?
As I’ve pointed out before, very few girls and women are going to carry for 9 months, give birth, and then place for adoption. Additionally, adoptees are 1-3% of the population and 16% of serial murderers. They are 15 times more likely than other people to kill 1 or both parents.
Protecting teen girls against pregnancy is all to the good. Sadly, this is true even if the girl WANTS to get pregnant. Such a pregnancy isn’t likely to end in abortion but the baby is apt to be neglected and grow up troubled.