...make sure kids get a real sex education, free birth control, and start implementing some real punishments for rapists? Sure that leaves a lot of other issues out there, but these simple measures would significantly cut down on demand for abortions. Shouldn't you be promoting that if you are "pro-life"? Or just think it would be easier to avoid the issue to begin with, when possible?
If you're really against abortion, why not help prevent them by helping women avoid unplanned pregnancies to begin with? Why is a significant portion of our society still avoiding these simple "solutions"?
2007-10-24 19:14:06 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I know of no one who is clueless about where babies come from.Give me a break. My daughter would have gotten her tail beaten, had she gotten pregnant. But then I knew who my daughter was with and what they where doing. And the boy knew what was left of him after my husband was finished with him was mine.
Stop letting your daughter's and son's acting like adults.No early dating and when they do start make sure they know what is not allowed.
My brother let every guy I dated know ,one hair out of place ,The boy died.
Come on parents, grow up.<><
2007-10-24 19:26:46 · answer #1 · answered by funnana 6 · 1⤊ 5⤋
I will make sure my kids get a real sex education, I think teaching it in school is a good idea. I don't like the idea of free birth control, unless you are just talking about condoms. I'm wouldn't be comfortable with my daughter taking any medication without my knowledge. Plus, being on the pill doesn't help a bit with STDs. About the rapist issue, I'll admit that I don't know a lot about the current punishments for them, I personnaly think they should be among the worst punishments available.
2007-10-25 02:20:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Frankly, I'm getting SICK AND TIRED of hearing this "Sex education is the cure-all for ... STD's, Pregnancy, Abortion."
It's a FRAUD!!!
I work with an 18-yr-old boy who just became a father. He said that he KNEW that they should have used a condom, but DECIDED NOT TO... and VOILA!!! She's pregnant! Sex ed did NOTHING to prevent that pregnancy! At first, he wanted her to have an abortion, but then thought better of it. Now, he's an 18-yr-old PIZZA COOK.. not much of a future, uh?
Then, just the other day, some kid here online asked a "HELP!" question. He is 15-yrs-old, his GF is 17. They ALSO knew they SHOULD have used a condom, but didn't .... JUST ONCE! And VOILA!!! She's PREGNANT! What should they do?
WELL???? These are just TWO of SO many stories I've heard and/or experienced that follow the SAME modus operandi... they KNEW they SHOULD have used a birth control method but DIDN'T! And now... what to do!
They all got their vaunted sex education. They ALL KNEW about what they SHOULD do.... but they did NOT use what was readily available to them. WHY? Cuz they're KIDS... they're CHILDREN... they're IMMATURE... they're still only half-baked! They're MINORS. They don't have the mental and emotional capacity to make WISE, MATURE decisions... that's why they are still MINORS!
These CHILDREN HAD these "simple solutions" but did not USE them. If they had been counseled that abstinence just might be a better solution, then... well? We're not "AVOIDING" the issue of sex education when we encourage our CHILDREN to be abstinent. Abstinence IS sex education, and it ALWAYS WORKS!
This argumentation would be the same as saying... "If you want to prevent murders, give the people the means to COMMIT murder, and they will choose NOT to!" By this logic, we ought to be arming the entire population!
Have a blessed day.
2007-10-25 03:38:10 · answer #3 · answered by wyomugs 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
abortion is an emotive issue.
yet some unborn babies are so deformed that they need to be aborted, often to prevent illness or even death of the mother.then there is pregnant by rape, sometimes by family members.
as another person said, until you have walked a mile in a persons shoes, do NOT judge them.
and morganie - how naive are you?! in the "olden days" you wax lyrical about, young girls had their babies snatched away at birth and forced into mental health institutions, or convent-prisons [look up the Magdalene laundries in Ireland]. or they had to have 'back street' abortions which often resulted in severe infection or death and often incomplete abortions. they were raped by the landed gentry at will, and then if became pregnant were sacked and forced into the poorhouse or workhouse.
abortions, despite the media hype, are not used as an alternative contraception method.
young men and women, from age 11 up, have always risked having sex, however distatseful it sounds, it is reality.
most of them DO wait til they're 16 and use contraception, but it doesnt always work.
would you want your 12 year old daughter to wreck her body by bearing a baby, or have an early abortion? no she shouldn't have had sex, but some will!
STOP judging so much!
and well done for the asker for this question!
the stone throwing must stop.
2007-10-25 03:06:57 · answer #4 · answered by hedgewitch 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Morganne.
Do you honestly think sex and teen sex is some new phenomena? In the past you were either forced to marry, sent off somewhere to hide to have the baby, and the wealthy got abortions, legal or not. The only thing that has changed is you are not forced to get married or face the degree of social stigma..
There is no excuse for not teaching comprehensive sex education. At some point pretty much everybody will be sexually active, best they are armed with as much knowledge as possible.
2007-10-25 02:24:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
but a LOT of abortions happen with married women who know about safe sex and birth control...just an 'oops' that they can't have.
Hell *I* was an oops, my mom was 19. My sister was planned and my mom was 16. They just HAPPEN and you can't plan and prepare for every instance. Shouldn't there be an OPTION?
Searcher - If you are under 18, you can get the pill for free from health clinics. If it's labeled confidential, it's free and your parents don't know about it. If you are over 18, the price is based on your income. If you have no income, it's still free.
2007-10-25 02:25:32 · answer #6 · answered by Low Rain 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Here's my take on the issue.
If sex education classes are focused only on informing children about pregnancy and STD's, then of course informing them that abstinence is the most effective method of prevention is the truth. It's a fact, and it would be irresponsible to omit such a fact.
It would ALSO be irresponsible to fail to fully inform children about contraceptive options. While abstinence IS undoubtedly the most reliable method of prevention, it's entirely unrealistic to implore children to abstain and then to neglect to inform them of their contraceptive options if they DO choose to become sexually active.
I know that none of us WANT to assume that our children might become sexually active before they're emotionally and psychologically prepared, not to mention financially stable enough to support any child they may create, but we shouldn't ignore reality simply because we don't like it.
We're all allowed to have sex. "Allowed" in that it's not illegal. I can understand programs like DARE telling children to stay away from drugs at all costs as drugs are illegal, but sex isn't. If someone chooses to have sex before marriage despite all pleas to the contrary, they're within their rights to do so. Many "kids" WILL have sex before marriage despite all pleas to the contrary, and again, to ignore this reality is completely irresponsible and frankly quite dangerous.
Some sex will be had no matter how hard or how much we try to dissuade. We can't stop it. That's reality. We might as well teach children that abstinence is best, but that contraception is available as an option IF they choose to have sex. They need to know that contraceptives are NEVER foolproof methods of prevention, but it's far better to let them know and to allow them to make safer decisions if they choose not to abstain.
2007-10-25 03:58:41 · answer #7 · answered by ZER0 C00L ••AM••VT•• 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh yes, condoms are the answer! The great condom will save us all. All hail the great and wise condom.
But first let's dress up our 12 year girls in hot pants and t shirts that say "s.l.u.t" on them and then get furious when they are abducted by a molester.
Let's teach kids that as long as you use a condom, you can hump like mad bunnies with NO consequences whatsoever, because condoms never break and there are no other side effects to sex outside of marriage.
As for tougher penalties for rapists, I'm with you. They should be snipped. Yes, snipped, cut, whack, you get the picture. Then they will never rape again.
2007-10-25 02:19:56 · answer #8 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Ahhh, the abortion issue. Bottom line, unless you walk in the shoes of the woman with the unwanted fetus growing inside her for what ever the reason, you should not judge her choice.
Education, available birth control and stringent punishment for rape would cut down on the unwanted pregnancies, but not eliminate them.
2007-10-25 02:24:55 · answer #9 · answered by dizzkat 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Just wanted to let you know that I am totally with you, sister. Abstinence only education is no education. I learned about contraception in school thirteen years ago. WHY would we go backwards?
I guess it's because some of us have an idealized and unrealistic idea that there was no extramarital sex or abortion in the past.
Funnana...Beat a pregnant woman?
2007-10-25 02:25:29 · answer #10 · answered by noname 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Tell that to the liquor and beer companies and see if they will put a disclaimer on their bottles that drinking alcohol can lead to impaired judgement that can lead to an unplanned pregnancy. Even better encourage them to do PSAs with the same message. Think that will ever happen? I doubt it.
2007-10-25 02:18:35 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋