Justice Department considering whether to appeal ruling on morning-after pill

[Gardenlady]

:floorlaugh: Hold one between your knees and it's birthcontrol. :what:

That might be funny in a time and place where politicians aren't suggesting this as an actual method of birth control.

 

[TrackerSam]

Condoms are also used to prevent sexually transmitted diseases or hinder crime detection, so his (theoretical) rapist might want him to use condoms to hide the rape. You're so focused on the pregnancy part of the equation that you can't see that the notion of using the purchase of contraception to reveal/detect sexual abuse is the same for either a boy child or a girl child.

I've heard of kids choking on balloons, so maybe we should set age restrictions for them too.

Yes but a 12 yr old wearing a condom wouldn't protect the boy from disease if he's raped.
A birth control pill won't prevent a girl getting a desease. Are we talking about what might be harmful? I've heard women say they can't take the pill for whatever medical reason. You're talking about the age of being able to buy a condom.
There is a huge difference between ingesting a drug and the wearing of a condom.
I've heard of kids choking on just about everything so let's put an age limit on just about everything. How silly would that be? You don't injest condoms and ballons.

 

[gxm]

Yes but a 12 yr old wearing a condom wouldn't protect the boy from disease if he's raped.
You're talking about the age of being able to buy a condom.
I've heard of kids choking on just about everything so let's put an age limit on just about everything. How silly would that be? You don't injest condoms and ballons.

Yes it will if he is raped by a woman and it will even protect him (and hinder abuse detection) if his male rapist performs oral sex on the boy or prefers being on the receiving end of anal sex.

If we accept the idea that a 12-year girl's sexual encounters are everyone's business (which demands adult intervention) then the same holds true for 12-year old boys and we should require age restrictions for the purchase of condoms or any other over-the-counter contraception. To just single girls out for this form of abuse oversight is be unfair to (and biased against) boys.

 

[TrackerSam]

That might be funny in a time and place where politicians aren't suggesting this as an actual method of birth control.

Politicians weren't the first to suggest it. I remember reading it as advice from Ann Landers about 45 yrs ago. :seeya:

 

[Jacie Estes]

That might be funny in a time and place where politicians aren't suggesting this as an actual method of birth control.

Or cloaking themselves in specious moral indignation...

 

[TrackerSam]

Yes it will if he is raped by a woman and it will even protect him (and hinder abuse detection) if his male rapist performs oral sex on the boy or prefers being on the receiving end of anal sex.

If we accept the idea that a 12-year girl's sexual encounters are everyone's business (which demands adult intervention) then the same holds true for 12-year old boys and we should require age restrictions for the purchase of condoms or any other over-the-counter contraception. To just single girls out for this form of abuse oversight is be unfair to (and biased against) boys.

But then the choice to wear a condom wouldn't be his be it a male or female rapist. And as such his being able to buy a condom at 12 is moot. His wearing a condom will not protect him from desease in anal rape.
You can't equate a girl ingesting a drug with somthing that's worn. A child in school can't give another child an aspirin or Midol without being expelled.
Condoms are sold in vending machines because they can't cause you physical harm. Birth control pills can. There is no abuse, rather an issue of safety for the child. Not all females can take birth control pills. At least that's what I've heard. I don't accept nor has anyone here said that a 12 year old girl's sexual encounters are "everyone's business", but her parents aren't "everyone". That's a strawman argument.

 

[TrackerSam]

Yes it will if he is raped by a woman and it will even protect him (and hinder abuse detection) if his male rapist performs oral sex on the boy or prefers being on the receiving end of anal sex.

If we accept the idea that a 12-year girl's sexual encounters are everyone's business (which demands adult intervention) then the same holds true for 12-year old boys and we should require age restrictions for the purchase of condoms or any other over-the-counter contraception. To just single girls out for this form of abuse oversight is be unfair to (and biased against) boys.

But then the choice to wear a condom wouldn't be his whether it was a male or female rapist, making the point of being able to buy a condom at 12yrs moot. No one has suggested that "a 12-year girl's sexual encounters are everyone's business". That's a strawman argument. Her parents aren't everyone. I'm sure you'd want to know if your juvenile son or daughter was having sexual encounters. Condoms are also sold out of vending machines because the wearing of one is harmless unlike ingesting a drug. I'm sorry you can't see that.
Not all females can take birth control pills. A child in school can't give another child Midol or even an aspirin without being expelled. There is no abuse, rather a safety issue - the safety of the adolescent female child.
There is no such issue with the wearing of condoms or hats, or gloves and Tshirts. There's just no comparing the two.