“Sebelius’ reason: Some girls as young as 11 are physically capable of bearing children, and Plan B’s maker didn’t prove that younger girls could properly understand how to use this product without guidance from an adult.”
- NYTimes: U.S. Rejects Plan to Widen Availability of Morning-After Pill
I’ve read this sentence like four times now, and I can’t make any sense of it. Some girls as young as 11 are physically capable of bearing children…so we should make sure they have to? Presumably the implication is that children who might be sexually active are too dumb to handle emergency contraception, so we should make sure they have to get an abortion or carry a baby to term instead.
Can you explain this to me in a way that makes it anything but malicious, cynical nonsense?
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