I'm writing a paper on pregnancy tests in high school. Any opinions on whether you think it's necessary?
I'm just thinking for heath issues that girls should have to take a test if their suspected. If the nurses at school don't know then they could give them aspirin for a common pregnancy headache, and you're not supposed to take aspirin while pregnant. Also, high contact sports can harm the baby if the girl were to fall... OPINIONS??
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1. Some medicine will affect the pregnancy. Best thing to look the medicine tell you the side effect about not taking any medicine while whose are pregnancy.2. Are you suggesting that a girl be required to take a pregnancy test? Suspected or not, if a girl is pregnant there may be problems with sports, etc, right? So, let's just be sure about all the girls entering school. Upon registration, each girl must take a pregnancy test!
3. I think it is up to the girl to be responsible. If she is big enough to have sex, she is big enough to take care of herself and get protection. If she becomes pregnant, she has to be a big girl and turn to a parent, counselor, or other trusted adult. It is not up to the school to test every girl. It is not the school's responsibility, and they don't have the right. I know you said if they are suspected, but that won't be effective. I knew a girl in high school who successfully hid her pregnancy until she was 8 months along. I also knew several girls that looked pregnant and weren't. It would be very hard on a girl to be tested because someone thought she could be pregnant and she wasn't. What would that do to her?
4. Well first of all that is very hetero-centric of you.
Second, you should not force girls in high school to take pregnancy tests. It’s a violation of privacy.
Finally, women don’t always know they are pregnant right away as it is… Aspirin may not be the best thing to take if you are pregnant, but knowingly taking it in the early stages of pregnancy will not necessarily have a negative outcome. The same is so with participating in sports.
5. Yes some medicines are OK to take, while under a doctors advice. And some sports and exercises are bad for pregnancies.
6. Honestly? I always encourage women on Yahoo!Answers that if they think they could be pregnant, to take a test.
But to make it a requirement? That'd be an incredible violation of a girl's civil liberties. The consequences of having a pregnancy discovered could be dire. They can be kicked out of their school, if it is a religious school. And what will the school do with the information that the girl is pregnant? Will they notify her parents? Will she be pressured to terminate or to give the baby up for adoption or to keep it as a function of the local politics?
No thank you, I prefer to let them have their privacy. It's too creepily reminiscent of Romania back under Nicolae Ceaucescu. Plus, you know, the things aren't free. It's not like most schools have budgets so high that a $10 test on every girl with a headache is going to be trivial.
7. Requiring pregnancy tests of anyone would be an extreme violation of privacy. I would never support such a thing.
