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Birth Control and Condoms
How can I get birth control? How much does it cost? Do they tell my parents?
Family planning clinics, like Planned Parenthood, are great places for teens to go for information about birth control and help in getting it.
These clinics often charge only what you can afford to pay. Clinics also promise confidentiality, meaning they never tell your parents or call your house, without your permission.
Clinic counselors will talk to you about your birth control options --- everything from the pill to condoms to Depo-Provera, a birth control shot that lasts three months.
This is also the place to go for "emergency contraceptive pills" -- high doses of birth control pills that can be taken if you have unprotected sex. ECPs, as they are called, can prevent a pregnancy up to 72 after unprotected sex. But, it only works about 70 percent of the time, so it is much safer to use a condom and birth control.
To find a clinic near you, call Planned Parenthood at 800-230-PLAN, visit their website at www.plannedparenthood.org or check in you phone book under "family planning."
