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4 pages in length. The 'problem' of teen pregnancy has reached what many believe to be epidemic proportions; as such, the government has seen fit to enact legislation and policy to help educate adolescents, fund programs and provide the ready access to contraceptives. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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and provide the ready access to contraceptives. Nearly twenty years ago, then-Wisconsin Governor Anthony Earl signed what was considered landmark legislation designed to "limit thousands of personal tragedies that
are played out in our state every day" (Wells et al, 1985 p. 78). Nary a vote from the state legislature was against this new law, which funded public
school sex education, provided one million dollars for pregnant teens to obtain counseling and rescinded previous restrictions that prohibited teens to purchase nonprescription contraceptives. Moreover, an interesting additional component
of this law made grandparents legally responsible for financially providing for the minors baby. The point Earl tried to make through this legislation was that of personal and social
responsibility: "All of us...young people and parents of young people, have a responsibility for our actions" (Wells et al, 1985, p. 78). Addressing the debate over whether teenage pregnancy is
caused by too little birth control or the sexual behavior between two under-aged individuals, the concern of right to privacy came into play when - at the turn of the
Millennium, before the new century was even three months old - it was suggested that parents have more involvement in contraceptive issues. Because antiabortion activists have been so successful
in blocking legislative approaches toward governmentally subsidized contraception, considered the "bedrock of privacy rights in America" (Arons, 2000, p. 1093) - the entire issue has "reemerged as the newest battleground
in the struggle over who will control womens fertility" (p. 1093). Exploring the rights issue even further, teens have complete constitutional backing of their access to contraception in the 1977
Supreme Court ruling of Carey v. Population Services International, which very clearly established precedence with regard to the "privacy embodied in the Fourteenth Amendment" (Arons, 2000, p. 1093). Moreover,
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