Women occasionally get blood clots from old-generation BCP...or HRT, too. It's usually related to a co-morbidity (obesity, smoking, vascular disease) but can also be from poor patient education or non-compliance (especially in younger patients). These meds are among the most rigorously tested, and regulated, for safety and side effects. You want to have it both ways -- by dissing the FDA on one hand, and expecting a perfect track record on the other.Originally Posted by Lewkowski
WTF. Must you always go to extremes in your missives? Look, I've already faced the rebellious teenager who disobeys, defies rules, and even *gasp* leaves the house without permission to attend a party. There are alternatives between the OMG they're gonna die! and physically restraining them or using physical force....or treating a 14 yr old like a 4 yr old.So if a 14 year old wants to go to a party - and you have said no and they go anyway what will you do? If they disobey you and you do not stop them and they later die at that party YOU are negligent. Now granted in most cases good parenting will lead to the child actually obeying the parent but in extreme situations where do you think the law sides? Where do you think SHOULD it side? And at what age do YOU think parents should still have physical control of the child. I'm sure you agree that a 4 year old shouldn't be allowed to leave the home just because he wants to - at what age are you suggesting this changes?
Man, you're all over the place. Phones, internet, school, sex....it's all one ball of wax in your Big Daddy mind. You leap from age 4 to 14, skipping an entire decade of parenting and childhood development, it's all the same to you. Your main concern is being authoritarian, always in charge, in control. Good luck with that.And while yes it is a tangent but the reality is that as long as you are a minor you don't have the right to an iPhone. You don't have the right to the internet. You don't have the right to not go to school. And you don't have the right to have sex if your parents say no. Does it happen? Sure of course I'm not stupid but children do not have absolute liberty to do as they will.
Legally, emancipated minors are autonomous. And why did you pick age 18 for buying condoms, when most 18 year olds aren't fully autonomous either --- and our legal drinking age is 21? Even 17 yr old HS students can "pre-enlist" with the military, with parental consent, so they're ready-to-roll on their 18th birthday.EDIT: Condoms don't cause blood clots or other serious issues. Though I don't really care about laws that restrict the freedoms of minors because they aren't autonomous yet - so if there was a law that passed that said you had to be 18 to buy a condom I wouldn't consider it a breach of essential freedoms because children DON'T HAVE essential freedoms.
edit: btw, female barrier methods don't cause blood clots or serious issues, either. But they do require a healthcare provider, and a prescription.
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if GGT can't give a number then the number has to be 14? What? 
