The number of teenage pregnancies has risen over the few years. If the government were to allow birth control pills to be sold to teenage girls without a prescription it can lower not just the teen pregnancies, but lower the birth rate of the United States in general. If a teen was to get pregnant it would most like;y put them or their family in debt, because of health care costs. A teenage girl would not be able to afford that and would most likely make her get a job afterward instead of making her way into college. In Colorado the teen birth rate had dropped 40 percent between 2009 and 2013, because birth control pills had gotten cheaper. Imagine the major impact if they decide to sell birth control pills without a prescription.
According to a study from Jennifer Frost and Laura Lindberg, who are from the Guttermatch Institute, had discovered that many women use birth control because it can help them attain economic security and expand their education. And Rachelle Suissa, president of Brooklyn-Queens National Organization for Women had said, “Choosing to postpone marriage and motherhood in favor of pursuing academic, career and other related goals.” Basically if making birth control be sold to underage girls can also make them focus on other points
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According to the ACOG unintentional pregnancy rates are considerably high, and is remaining that way, is more that 50 percent responsible for all of the pregnancies that have occurred over 20 years. Yes there is a chance that you may have a problem with a specific type of birth control pill, but apparently every three to ten women out of 100,000 women experience VTE, a “potentially” deadly disease that can clot the blood flow to the lungs and can cause death. According to ACOG though there is a self screen by utilizing a checklist, like the one by the World Health