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Written by MJ Violenes-Walker, a youth advocate and liaison at EmpowerMEnt
Being a teenage mom has higher complications and fears alone especially when your biggest concerns are "If I go to the Doctor how will I pay for the visit?" and If I can pay for the visit and they tell me I need a prescription how do I pay for the prescription?" Even with the discounts that are offered prescriptions and doctors visits are still expensive. It is important that adolescent health is supported so teenagers and their children can grow up to be healthy adults. Something simple as being able to go to the doctor or receiving education can prevent teenage pregnancy, and help those that are pregnant from dying or becoming unhealthy.
Being the daughter of a teenage mother I was premature and I have health problems to this day that come from being premature and being a teenage mom myself I know if I had went to the doctor sooner than what I had I might not have gotten as sick as I was in my second trimester of pregnancy. The fear of being pregnant while being in foster care guided my decision to hide my pregnancy and it wasn't until I was sick, recieved bad advice from a hospital hotline and had to be hospitalized afterwards that I started to receive the prenatal care that my daughter and I needed. Had I continued to hide my pregnancy and given birth outside a hospital I would have died because my daughter and I almost died in the delivery room and my foster mother urged the doctors to try and save both of us. Situations such as mine are not abnormal and we should support our teenagers and young adults by supporting the funded needed to keep them healthy.
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