13-year-old girls provide contraceptives

The British authorities are ready to start providing girls from 13 years of contraceptives. To do this, they do not even need a meeting with the doctor. Parents, too, nothing to say.

Teenagers, who is much younger than the official age of consent (Age in which sexual intercourse with them is not a crime - in the UK it is 16 years in Russia and 16 in the US 18) will receive oral Contraceptives   no person meetings with doctors. To this end, the girl of 13 years should be all-just visit the local pharmacist, who will provide them birth control pills   in any amount.

This scheme is being implemented by the national authorities, who are trying to break the stalemate with teenage sex and pregnancy . The main feature of the proposal is that the girls will have access to contraceptives   without having to know about it parents.

However, for this scheme to work, the authorities will have to introduce sex education lessons to children. Over 70% of girls aged 13-16 years still believe that one unprotected sexual contact is not enough to get pregnant. The vast majority of young men and women believe that if a guy has time to get out before the partner's ejaculation, the pregnancy will not be, although it is also not true.

There are plans for government and ardent critics. They believe that the distribution of condoms and children contraceptives   It will be the actual legalization teenage sex . Adults like to give the nod to the fact that the 13-year-old to change partners - as long as they are protected from unwanted teenage pregnancy .

So far, the vast majority of areas of Britain the girls need to see a doctor to get a prescription for the purchase contraceptives . If this pilot scheme is successful, then a girl of 13 to 25 years will be supplied birth control pills   without prescriptions.

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