Have you ever had sexual intercourse with someone and either didn’t use protection or weren’t sure if the protection worked? The morning after pill contains a higher dose of progestin than is in regular birth control pills. Taking it within 72 hours of rape, condom failure, or simply just forgetting regular protection can cut the chances of pregnancy by up to 89%. But it works best within the first 24 hours. The morning after pill should be legal to 15 year olds for these three reasons, most people don’t want to be a teen mom, if someone were to be raped the they do not need to worry about having an unwanted child, and it will reduce unintended pregnancy. Most people do not want to become a teen mom. Teenagers are very sexually active by the time they turn 15. Statistics show that 8 out of 10 girls in high school that become teen moms do not finish high school. When the girls become pregnant they have to focus on the baby and they miss out on a lot of things that other high school students without children get to do. Some examples of this would be homecoming, basketball games, football games, prom, and other things. …show more content…
in 2002 to 11 percent in 2006-2010, according to a recent CDC report. “It’s wonderful for women to know that emergency contraception is out there and available to them, because we know accidents happen.” But we also hope that people continue to use reliable contraception all the time,” says Dr. Mary Jane Minkin. Each year, about six million pregnancies occur in the United States. About half occur among women who did not plan on having a baby. There are two reasons this happens. Half the time, it is because birth control failed, meaning that the contraceptive itself didn’t work or that a woman and her partner made a mistake when they were using it. The other half of the time, the couple wasn’t using any method of birth