Friday, 14 December 2007

Over the counter birth control...

...is now being supplied, FREE to anyone who's under 16 with their parents consent. It's kind of sad that it's got to this point- that the window of innocence has shrunk to a pinprick and the only way that society can think to combat this is to have an enormous givaway of contraceptive pills.

Up until the age of 16 I was still climbing trees and rollerblading. Boys were just a slightly weirder variation of girls. But now apparantly that's all changed, and now the only thing keeping a 14 year old from falling pregnant is to ply her with the contents of a pharmacy.

Not to increase awareness of STD's, AIDS, the dangers of pregnancy, the importance of intimacy in a relationship or the crippling financial implications of bearing a child at such a young age.
No, lets just get them to take pills and they can keep on touching each other in places.

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