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Contraception (birth control)
is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in
order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman
becoming pregnant or giving birth. Therefore contraception is the
utilization of various and sundry surgical procedures, devices,
practices, agents, or drugs with the intention of preventing conception
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| Caught between teens and the law: family planning programs and statutory |
| GUTTMACHER REPORT ON PUBLIC POLICY. 1998 Jun;1(3):5-7. |
| In the US, policy-makers and legislators have considered using statutory rape prosecutions of males to reduce the |
| incidence of adolescent pregnancy or the incidence of minors being exploited sexually by much older males. |
| However, health care professionals fear that mandatory reporting of such cases will discourage young women from |
| seeking health care. Statutory rape laws vary from state to state, but every state has an age below which a minor may |
| not legally consent to sexual intercourse. Reporting laws are more complicated because they are tied to child |
| abuse statutes instead of statutory rape laws. In about half of the states, the definition of child abuse includes some |
| cases of statutory rape. Thus, agencies created to deal with intrafamilial abuse have no mechanism for responding |
| to reports of extrafamilial statutory rape, so some case reports are simply filed while others result in the man being |
| charged with a crime. Such a response simply breaches the confidentiality of the victim and has other unintended |
| negative consequences. Many service providers edit the questions they ask their clients so that they can avoid |
| mandatory reporting. Others tell their clients not to divulge the age of their sexual partner, but such a warning can |
| make young women afraid to confide in service providers. To shed light on this dilemma, the American Bar |
| Association is doing research to identify the "best practice" adopted by communities seeking a more vigorous |
| response to statutory rape laws, and lawmakers should wait for this report before taking action. (PubHealth.info |
| Document ID: CONT1T 4584-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Caught between teens and the law: family planning |
| programs and statutory rape reporting.", is(are) Donovan P. The source of this article is "GUTTMACHER REPORT |
| ON PUBLIC POLICY. 1998 Jun;1(3):5-7.". This article was published in 1998 in English language(s). |
| (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT1T 4584-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 4584 |
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