[goldstategop]

Oh my. I have no sympathy for them whatsoever. Where was their responsibility to their own child BEFORE she became sexually active? Its not the drug company's responsibility to raise that child. The parents should have looked out for their daughter and this lawsuit is merely a childish attempt to divert attention away from their failure to exercise their parental responsibilities. Its an another instance of a society in which no one takes responsibility for anything. Sure you can argue the drug company is culpable but what about the parents? They are fare from innocent, aggrieved victims here. If they had done the right thing from Day One, their daughter would still be alive today.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[Coleus]

yea, God forbid they would take her to church or teach her some morals and values and teach her to just say NO and say NO to her to not have sex until she's married.

take the easy way out and buy her a patch, this way she could be a slut, get a great reputation in high school, be real popular with the boys and contract any STD from which to choose, like: AIDS, Herpes, HPV, all that are incurable.

[Guenevere]

14......14!!!!..

..and her parents encouraged more sex by getting her the patch????

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Oh my. I have no sympathy for them whatsoever. Where was their responsibility to their own child BEFORE she became sexually active? Its not the drug company's responsibility to raise that child. The parents should have looked out for their daughter and this lawsuit is merely a childish attempt to divert attention away from their failure to exercise their parental responsibilities. Its an another instance of a society in which no one takes responsibility for anything. Sure you can argue the drug company is culpable but what about the parents? They are fare from innocent, aggrieved victims here. If they had done the right thing from Day One, their daughter would still be alive today.

Of course you are correct. Nice writeup.

[George from New England]

" The parents should have looked out for their daughter..."

In many blue states the parents are denied the consent/notification stage in even birth control decisions for teen girls.

[Calpernia]

I agree with your post.

But I don't understand why the pharm company has this patch so widely available with these adverse affects.

When I worked in Drug Regulatory Affairs, drugs with a package insert such as this product was not made this available.

[truthpls]

You have swallowed too much PC. You simply cannot simplify this by blaming parents. Parents control over children has been zeroed out by so many outside influences that parents are at the very bottom of the list. People now believe that it is normal for 14 year olds to "experiment with sex", as opposed to being "curious about sex", and of course, the solution to the problem is to prevent birth. Oh, my God, what has happened to reality?