This is Health Care Transition, Part 1 of 4
Part 1 of 4. Growing up and becoming an adult is difficult for all youth, but can be especially challenging for young people with special health ...
Calif. Counties Get Mail-Order Condom Program
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Teenagers in several counties can get condoms in the mail for free under a program launched this week and supported by state public health officials.
The Condom Access Project allows youth between the ages of 12 and 19 to order a package of 10 condoms, lube and health brochures online at TeenSource.org , a website run by the nonprofit California Family Health Council. The package will be mailed to them in a nondescript yellow envelope.
Supporters say the program - aimed at reducing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases among teens - will benefit young people who cannot afford to buy condoms or are too embarrassed to go to clinics where they are distributed for free.
"We can't keep our heads in the sand and pretend there isn't a problem...," Vice President of Public Affairs for the Family Health Council Amy Moy told the Bakersfield Californian. "We want to make sure (teens are) as safe as possible."
Health Care: Making the Choice to Execute a Health Care Power of ...
This appointment is executed by means of a "health care power of attorney" form, a model for which can be obtained from your attorney. One such option, for Catholics and others, can be a "health care power of attorney" and "living will. " South Carolina State law allows you to appoint someone as your agent to make health care decisions for you in the event you lose the ability to decide for yourself. The looming prospect of legalized physician-assisted suicide is one such choice which severely erodes the inherent value and dignity of human life. Euthanasia and willful suicide, in any form, are offenses against life....