Posted on 03/13/2023 1:05:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway
DEAR ABBY: I am a 14-year-old freshman who had an abortion last year. I’m not sure who the father is, and I don’t want to go through that again. I want to get birth control, but I’m afraid my parents or my older brother will find out. They would kill me. I already have a bad reputation, and I don’t want a worse one by having someone find out I was pregnant (or could be again if I don’t get birth control).
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01:22 What would be the safest way for someone my age to get birth control? I know you’ll probably say “no sex” is the best, but I enjoy it too much now. It’s like a habit. Please help. — GROWN-UP GIRL IN RHODE ISLAND
DEAR GIRL: I have never heard of a girl in this country being killed just because she had sex, so your fears about your parents doing that may be overblown. Your mom may not be thrilled with the news, but she won’t kill you. You need her and her guidance.
If you continue on the path you’re on, having sex with multiple boys, you may have more to worry about than becoming pregnant again. Some of the sexually transmitted diseases around today could cause you to become sterile at a time when you may want a child.
An organization called Planned Parenthood (plannedparenthood.org) can provide you with birth control. It can also inform you about STDs and how to avoid them. Because you feel you cannot stop yourself from having sex, contact Planned Parenthood as soon as possible, preferably before the next time you indulge your habit.
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Dear Abby apparently isn’t aware of honour killings.
Planned Parenthood has about as much to do with parenting as Stacey Abrams has with dieting.
It’s EASY to get birth control. It’s available over the counter in most if not all GROCERY stores even. I mean, everyone knows the best birth control in the WORLD is aspirin. Take 1 aspirin, and hold it tightly between your knees.
Read that one with some horror yesterday. I mean, a 14-YO saying “I like sex to much to give it up!” Start with the parents and work outward from there.
And the answer says nothing about morality. Today, sex is just like eating except women can get pregnant and of course you can get STDs.
But the idea it is a special sharing between two people committed to each other AND MARRIED is just looked down upon.
Not that many moslems in Rhode Island.
Planned Parenthood is neither.
No Parents in sight it seems...Another example of modern day wasted youth..
How did she get a medical procedure performed without her parents knowledge?!
GP BeetleBoy Chat has all the answers. Off to a Santa Clause event staring JoeyBoy Biden.
I spend/spent a lot of time in RI. I think you'd be surprised.
Most states allow that.
There are probably more 114 year old women that read Dear Abby than there are 14 year old girls that read Dear Abby.
“Most states allow that.”
That’s the root cause right there.
Waterbury is,and has been for some time,a run down city whose sole employer (Timex) died years ago. So it stands to reason that they'd have a mosque.
You ever get to Meriden, CT? OMG, what a shite hole.
DEAR BABY: I have heard of many a girl or boy in this country being killed because their parents had sex, so your fears about your parents doing that may not be overblown. Your mom may not be thrilled with the news, but maybe she won’t kill you.
When this girl is in her thirties, and treating her flare ups from an incurable STD, and is raising a child or two by herself, with no prospect of finding a decent man, she’ll say “why didn’t anyone tell me I would end up like this?”
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