I thought you were being sarcastic when I read this. Then I realised it may not be the case in the US. Trust me, it doesn't work. We have the above and there are still people spawning recklessly and damaging another generation born into poverty, ignorance, bad parenting and all round stupid choices.

I suggest 3 year implants for every girl aged 14 unless there is a specific medical case against it. Okay, there are some who will get pregnant the day after it is removed, but at least they've had a chance to get through basic schooling by then.

Good luck with that. It would never ever happen here, because it would "encourage" those precious little snowflakes to have sex. We just had a huge hubbub about a new vaccine to prevent cervical cancer--there were actually large numbers of people who did not want the vaccine given to 12-year-old girls specifically because the cause of this particular cancer is an STD, and thus giving it to them was just one more safeguard for their immorality.

So true, Clodfobble. Incredibly sad and stupid and short-sighted (on their part), but true.

I third that thought!

Fortunately in the end it passed, in Texas anyway. I don't know about other states. What it really came down to in the end is that our governor is more beholden to the pharmaceutical lobby than the religious lobby. Not the best of reasons, but I'm still glad it worked out the way it did.

Well I will be saying a bit more than I want to about myself here but here goes any ways...

If you all have not figured it out, I work in the health care sector. Specifically I am a health care provider. That is all I want to say about that. I can tell you that a majority of people scam the system, in my limited experience of 30 years. It is not pretty. There is no easy fix. After a while you fold in on yourself and do the best you can for the people you care for, regardless of their personal situations or ability to pay, and in the end take care of yourself and your family to the best of your ability. Anyone have any experience slamming your head against a brick wall repeatedly? After a while all you get is a head ache, the brick wall only gets bloodied and remains indifferent.

wait - please. What passed? I missed it.

The "controversial" life-saving cervical cancer vaccine legislation.

What worked for you?

Working in health care destroyed me. Literally. When I quit I felt like I needed to be de-briefed and get PTSD therapy. The more you care the more you're burned.

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Sundae and Clod:
No. It wouldn't work because:People like me would get pissed about mandatory reproductive laws falling on girls (again) and say they have had enough!! I'm tired of women having to be responsible for every goddamned thing. We have always bared the burden for every fucked up social problem there is....screw that suggestion let's toss it. Here's one.


One word:Vasectomies.

K?

When the guy gets married,becomes a certain age, or is certain he wants a baby, and stops sowing his seed all over the field...it can be reversed. Which is the cause of so many welfare babies. Guys are fucking and running, at alarming rates. "dat ain' mi bebby" So before we even think to inconvenience women again lets attack the problem from where it stems.

Who remembers the male "pill"? What in the hell happened to that?!? Where did it go, and why has it not been released?!? This is bullshit...I get so frustrated sometimes....:yelsick:

Damn, V...that was cold. ;)

I'm cut from a different cloth...I've never wanted kids, so I was religious about contraception.

http://www.ppwp.org/education/progra...inkitover.html

A friend's daughter had one of these from school. They feel it worked...

Well said Cic!

OK, then we'll stand on principle, just leave it the way it is, and let teenage girls continue to get pregnant and fuck up their lives