Birth Control for young girls

[Sundae]

Would just like to reiterate that I was not making a connection between free contraception and high teen pregnancy.

Other countries in Europe (which we are measured against) also have free contraception. The difference is in attitude both to education, about and from families and to general levels of poverty.

I went to good schools. In my middle school I learned human reproductive biology from the age of 11. We had focus chat groups with our teacher and the local priest (Catholic school). These were about what is now called abstention, but did include info about STDs and contraception.

From 12 onwards I was at Grammar school (school you have to pass a test to get into). We had sex pushed down our throats til we were sick of it. Sorry, I mean sex education til it was boring. Biology, Social Studies, various assemblies, religious studies, blah, blah, blah. Any girl who had sex unprotected was a silly cow who got what she deserved.

I've said before - I did.
Didn't get pregnant. But shows that even an aware and intelligent girl thinks she's immune. The curse of the teenager. There are schoolgirls out there that want to get pregnant. If we can only help prevent those that don't, and do so by accident, at least it will help.

I've no idea how to do it, given I had an excellent education and chanced becoming a statistic myself. Which is why I advocate enforced contraception. I'd even advocate enforced termination for girls under 16, but I know that would be even harder to enforce than contraception and might even lead to me being lynching even making the suggestion.