Pregnancy Testing Should Be Allowed

Adolescents, a teenage boy or girl, do have the right to make a medical decision depending on their age and the situation. Us teenagers go through an efficient amount of events in this specific stage of life, this adolescent stage is used for growth spurts and puberty changes. Though the changes with puberty, sexual maturation, may occur gradually. By adolescents going through this specific stage in life sexual intercourse may be involved with many. Adolescents range from the age of ten to the age of nineteen. Ten year old girls should not be allowed to saunter into a medical office and demand to be on birth control without the consent or presence of a parent or guardian. A ten year old is not mentally mature to make such an extravagant decision at that specific age but …show more content…
Yes, it is only a pregnancy test but a pregnancy test can tell you so much about your future and what it holds. A fifteen year old should not be able to take a pregnancy test and given the choice to keep it privately from her mother, father or guardian. If the test comes back as positive it can get dangerous. This fifteen year old girl will most likely keep it a secret and will not get the medical attention she needs for her and her baby and this can lead to a miscarriage, abortion of her own doing perhaps trying to or succeding with self harm. At the age of nineteen, the adolescent should be able to make this decision because they are finally legal of age and no longer under their parents. A very, very important medical choice is abortion. Abortions are the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy, most often performed during the first 28 weeks of pregnancy. Abortions should not be allowed for teenage pregnancies, no matter the situation going on in their life there is always the option of