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Schools Put Girls as Young as 12 on the Pill Without Their Parents Knowing

In Britain, one in 20 minors are being prescribed birth control pills without their parents’ knowledge. The Daily Mail reports that some of these girls are as young as 12-years-old, and approximately 75,000 girls under the age of 16 receive the pill every year. This...

STDs.2000

  Of the estimated 18.9 million new STD cases in the USA in 2000, 9.1 million (48 percent – almost half) were among 15- to 24-year-olds. [CDC] The cost to treat (not necessarily cure) newly-acquired STDs among this age group each year is estimated at...