raeanna74

Not when the risks involved with a 14 yr old being pregnant are as high as they are above.

The risks are not just to the teen mother. The risks are to the infant child she gives birth to. And if you'll notice in the facts I found from Planned Parenthood the chances of her NOT having an abortion are fairly low. Even if she carrys the infant to full term she the risks to the teen mother include the following as well as other risks.

1. permanant damage to the bladder.
2. damage to the intestines.
3. damage to the urethra
4. damage to the vaginal canal.
5. damage to reproductive organs in general.
6. sterilization due to trama to the reproductive organs.
7. possible death
numerous other more permanant injuries

to the infant the risks are also fairly high and the younger the teen the higher the risks to the infant

1. brain damage
2. retardation
3. learning disability
4. injury to the head during childbirth
5. death
as well as other permanant health and mental issues.

Then consider the ongoing complications of a teenager giving birth including the possibility of the mother dropping out of highschool (which if you will refer to the planned parenthood link you'll see that the risk is fairly high). There are also risks of the parent or parents becoming welfare participants for an extended period. I know many here at TFP seem fairly antagonistic about people who live off welfare for a long time. Well this is one way to prevent a large portion of the population even GETTING on welfare. I even know of some mothers who are on welfare so long as they have young children. Then when their youngest nears the cutoff age for the welfare benefits she will try to get pregnant JUST to continue the welfare benefits. There are many more problems with teens giving birth than adults giving birth and the worst of which are NOT death.

Go have a car accident, die, what's the worst that comes out of it?? You're life is ended and your family grieves for you. What a waste?? Really - I can think of a worst waste - Go get pregnant, have a child, raise it as a welfare child and then let it drop out of school early because you never really learned to grow up and be a parent before concieving and before you were old enough to actually give birth to a healthy child that wasn't retarded.

Back to the car analogy
Driving or traveling by gas powered vehicle on public roadways - rarely avoidable for the working population to survive.
Sex as a teenager - NOT necessary for survival. Completely avoidable for a few more years.

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