Reply #17: You fail to realize the consequences of parental notification

[WindRavenX]

Preventing access to BC, or any contraceptive for that matter, will only increase teenage pregnancy and STD rates. If parents are notified that their kids are on BC, and the parents stop their child from receiving BC, that doesn't stop the kid from having sex.
That's the main point that needs to be addressed in this issue-- not the judgement call on whether or not the kids are mature enough for sex, because I think we can agree in most cases they're not. Heck, they're still going through puberty. But that's not the issue. The issue is whether or not this is going to improve public health. And it will.

This is a very pragmatic, real world solution.