AdelaideNow... Removal 'better than contraception': "State Health Minister Stephen Robertson said the director of nursing at Woorabinda Multipurpose Health Service confirmed that all of the implants were performed at the request of, or in consultation with, a child's mother and a doctor."
This is Australia in 2008. Would you want your daughter of 12 fitted with a contraceptive device? I wouldn't. I wouldn't want her to be taken away either. I realise social mores are different in different places and that we cannot change practices overnight. It doesn't make sense to make the young girls bear the weight of adult behaviour which could be changed. It would mean people within that community would have to support the changes and be used as the ones who can create and bring about that change. Either put them on contraceptives at a young age or take them away form their families? That's not a choice for the girls nor on behalf of girls living in Australia in 2008.
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