7.6% of all child abuse is sexual. Another 7.6% is psychological maltreatment.

Children (click title to entry - thank you) are suffering from a hidden epidemic of child abuse and neglect. Over 3 million reports of child abuse are made every year in the United States; however, those reports can include multiple children. In 2009, approximately 3.3 million child abuse reports and allegations were made involving an estimated 6 million children.

I am fully aware of how the female gender at any age is a second class citizen in the USA, however, to empower the victimized is not a valid venue in the USA.  Allowing emergency birth control for young girls and young women is a form of abuse. 


As an ethical issue alone there has to be authority involved with such activity in a society.  I would rather see the Secretary of Health and Human Services along with the Justice Department start to shape protections for young women and girls with an understanding that rape and/or incest is a very viable reality when such pregnancies occur.  Providing 'an out' for the abuser is not a moral venue.