1. By: Amanda Mette

2. High school students in America
should be allowed the right to access
birth control from a doctor or a
Planned Parenthood center without
parental consent, because doing so
would decrease the teenage
pregnancy and abortion rates.

3.  17:
Average age virginity lost
 88% of teens break virginity pledges
 Abstinence Only programs don’t work
 Parents need to face reality

4.  18%
ages 13-19 oral prescription in 2009
 Increased 50% since 2002
 Minimal price increase

5.  80%
pregnancies unplanned
 U.S. = highest rate in the world
 750,000 pregnant each year

7.  1/3
pregnant teens seek abortion
 24/1,000 teens gets abortion
 200,000 per year

8.  Survey
of 1500 adolescents
 1/5 would still remain sexually active, even if
parents denied
 Only 1% would stop sexual activity

9.  Federally
funded
 59% of teens would not go if parental
consent needed
 Decreases 400,000 pregnancies/yr.

10.  Only
14% contact Title X before sexual
activity
 Positive reinforcements more effective
 Parental consent
not seeking help

11. •75% pregnancy
drop between 1988
and 1995
•Confidentiality is
important
•Pregnancy rates
and abortion rates
will be lower