IUDs, implants urged for teen girls' birth control

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

By LINDSEY TANNER

(AP) In this undated image provided by Merck, a model holds the Nexplanon hormonal implant for birth...
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CHICAGO (AP) - Teenage girls may prefer the pill, the patch or even wishful thinking, but their doctors should be recommending IUDs or hormonal implants - long-lasting and more effective birth control that you don't have to remember to use every time, the nation's leading gynecologists group said Thursday.

The IUD and implants are safe and nearly 100 percent effective at preventing pregnancy, and should be "first-line recommendations," the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said in updating its guidance for teens.

Both types of contraception are more invasive than the pill, requiring a doctor to put them in place. That, and cost, are probably why the pill is still the most popular form of contraception in the U.S.

But birth control pills often must be taken at the very same time every day to be most potent. And forgetting to take even one can lead to pregnancy, which is why the pill is sometimes only 91 percent effective.

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In this undated image provided by Merck, a model holds the Nexplanon hormonal implant for birth control. Teenage girls may prefer the pill, the patch or even wishful thinking, but their doctors should be recommending IUDs or hormonal implants - long-lasting and more effective birth control that you don't have to remember to use every time, the nation's leading gynecologists group said Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Merck)

[Orrex]

1. We can also expect the GOP to argue that IUDs are a form of abortion

in that they can prevent implantation of a fertilized ovum.


Therefore they must be evil or something.

[sakabatou]

2. The believe that, to quote Monty Python, every sperm is sacred

[Posteritatis]

9. I'm waiting for them to start claiming abstinence is a form of abortion at this rate. (nt)

[Ilsa]

3. Barrier protection with

Condoms, even diaphragms, is still a good idea, though, to provide some protections against some STDs.

[eggplant]

4. Yes, but the point was comparing implantables with daily pills. n/t

[Ilsa]

5. Yes, it's very important.

The teens are generally not responsible enough to carry on with a daily regimen unless a parent is supervising.

[ldf]

6. it may be extreme, but i have been saying for years

that as soon as a kid becomes able to cause a child (onset of menstruation or ability to ejaculate) the kid should have an implant preventing all pregnancies. it should be applicable to both sexes, not the sole responsibility of females. it takes TWO to tango, so both should have to deal with it.

when they get to the age that they WANT a child, they could have it removed.
big pharma should make sure there are no side effects. there will be stds, but that is a completely different issue.

we have got to stop unwanted pregnancies, which will stop the need for abortions, and will stop children from having babies. it will help slow the population explosion, and EVERY child of age should be required to have the implant.

AND, if someone wants to become a parent, they must prove the ability to BE a parent, both emotionally and financially. then they can get the implant removed.

yes, i know it is a tall order for the pharmaceutical industry, but it could be done.

and yes, i know it is a tall order for society, but we either face it, or it is going to destroy us.

overpopulation has got to be addressed. unwanted pregnancies have got to be addressed. babies having babies has got to be addressed.

culture or religion is irrelevant.

i don't believe anyone's "right to freedom" includes fucking us all into oblivion.

nature left alone finds balance. and when you think about it, we are NOT of nature. we are above it. no other living entity would, if left alone, destroy the planet.

yet WE are destroying the planet, primarily for the purpose of profit, for the "markets" of the increasing number of people.

we must deal with it, or at some point in the near future we, or our descendants, will ALL die, miserable, horrible deaths.

my two cents, so shoot me.

and don't get me started on religion, the single worst cancer on human society.

/rant off

[hunter]

7. We're not "above" Nature. Nature will solve the "problem" as she always does...

... by killing off the excess population and the social organizations that go with it.

It's already happened numerous times in human history. We wander into some "garden of Eden," we rapidly reproduce, we eat everything, we fight among ourselves for what's left, and then we die. That's how there came to be so many "lost" cities for the nineteenth century archaeologists to explore.

When our species learned to "eat" fossil fuels our population exploded exponentially into a single oil-eating society encompassing the earth.



wikipedia

But now that fossil fuel use has caused the climate to shift radically and a lot of us are going to die like animals. Because we are animals.

[lynne]

8. Would NEVER recommend an IUD to my daughter's -

- or to anyone, for that matter. I had a horrific physical response to the IUD with cramps that were so bad that I actually had to pull over to the side of the road while driving for fear I'd pass out. Horrible pain with massive bleeding. Not for me and I told my daughter's to avoid it for fear they would have a similar reaction.

[LeftyMom]

10. How long ago was that?