To: The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Donald Trump
Free and open birth control access for teenage girls
Young women across the country should not be denied the right to plan their futures the way they want.
Why is this important?
With America having one of the highest teen pregnancy rates among the industrialized countries, it is important to address this issue in its simplest way, by granting young girls the benefit of planning their futures and contribute to society without having to spend hundreds of dollars on things that should be free.
As a young woman I have found myself many times being told that if I happen to get pregnant I will automatically ruin my life, it is not a secret that teen pregnancy is still seen as a taboo and has a great deal of misconceptions, but if teen pregnancy is such a complicated and delicate topic, why is the government not addressing this?, instead of spending thousands of dollars in school sexual education programs promoting abstinence (that by the way has been statistically proven do not help much), why not just invest in a more open sexual education that treats both males and females equally while promoting safe consensual sex?
A new generation of empowered women comes a long with great benefits for the country as a whole: less insurance money spent on abortions for unwanted pregnancies and psychological treatment of women that go through with the process, less suicide rates in the female population, higher female graduation rates from 4-year universities, slower population growth (population growth is an essential cause of most societal problems), better economy because of the influence of educated well-formed women, etc.
If it was your daughter, your sister, or even yourself who was in that position... what would you do?
As a young woman I have found myself many times being told that if I happen to get pregnant I will automatically ruin my life, it is not a secret that teen pregnancy is still seen as a taboo and has a great deal of misconceptions, but if teen pregnancy is such a complicated and delicate topic, why is the government not addressing this?, instead of spending thousands of dollars in school sexual education programs promoting abstinence (that by the way has been statistically proven do not help much), why not just invest in a more open sexual education that treats both males and females equally while promoting safe consensual sex?
A new generation of empowered women comes a long with great benefits for the country as a whole: less insurance money spent on abortions for unwanted pregnancies and psychological treatment of women that go through with the process, less suicide rates in the female population, higher female graduation rates from 4-year universities, slower population growth (population growth is an essential cause of most societal problems), better economy because of the influence of educated well-formed women, etc.
If it was your daughter, your sister, or even yourself who was in that position... what would you do?