# Rizzo's Character in the Movie, "Grease"?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 25, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzos-character-in-the-movie-grease/807419 "2018-01-25T01:14:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzos-character-in-the-movie-grease/807419/21 "2018-01-26T06:35:18Z")

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Even if there were pills, Rizzo wouldn’t have had access to them. Parents would have to be involved for prescriptions. There were no Planned Parenthood centers. I am sure even buying condoms would’ve been taboo for a female.  
Boy, havn’t times changed?

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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzos-character-in-the-movie-grease/807419/22 "2018-01-26T06:59:12Z")

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> [@Beckdawrek](#):
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> Even if there were pills, Rizzo wouldn’t have had access to them. Parents would have to be involved for prescriptions. There were no Planned Parenthood centers. I am sure even buying condoms would’ve been taboo for a female.  
> Boy, havn’t times changed?

[Planned Parenthood](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood) was founded in 1916. (Now how many clinics were open, that I couldn’t tell you, but it definitely existed)

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzos-character-in-the-movie-grease/807419/23 "2018-01-26T08:30:22Z")

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For teens, without parental consent. I doubt it. I mean there wad a stink about kids asking for birth control ‘information’ when my kids were in highschool. You couldn’t get birthconrol pills without a parent when I was underage, a few decades after the 50s. Now kids can go to the County Health dept. and get birth control and education, free.

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