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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous[b]]Just make it easier to get birth control period. [/b]

I went with a friend from the neighborhood to get the pill, my mother (we were middle class) got it for me. Her mother, not so much. Her mother had her at 16/17 and her grandmother had her mother at 14!  She didn't want to be that. They wouldn't give it to her without parent there.

She got pregnant a few years later and I went to college. [/quote]

They don't want to be on birth control!!   Most of these girls get pregnant on purpose. 
I worked as an RN in ob/gyn clinics in Baltimore for year (at Johns Hopkins Bayview, Harbor Hospital and Mercy Medical Center).  
I love working with this population but no, they're not getting pregnant because of a failure or lack of birth control. 
The vast majority of it is purposeful---the problem is MUCH bigger than a birth control access one (i.e. how can we change their entire world view so that they have bigger goals than having a baby at 15?)[/quote]

Completely true.  Anyone who works with this population of young women will tell you the same thing.

Agree that it would be immensely helpful to address the issue of helping young girls want more than just another baby.[/quote]

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