Study after study has shown that they're more likely to delay sexual activity for a year or two and likely to have fewer partners when they do become sexually active, which might sound good except that when they do become sexually active they're less likely to use condoms, more likely to engage in unprotected anal intercourse, and less likely to seek treatment for STDs.
Abstinence-only sex ed isn't just a simplified, dumbed down version of sex ed. It's the imposition of religious belief into our education and public policy. They think that sex before marriage is morally wrong. So they don't want to teach kids about contraception because they think it will only encourage them to have sex. And they are definitely against teach about abortion because that to their minds is even more wrong.
The funding is going into drilling it into kids that sex before marriage is morally wrong.
Yep. This instills good intentions, then in the long run, promotes embarrassment, low self-confidence and confusion among other things. These girls have all kinds of crazy ideas in their head. I've heard some of them from girls who had them up there who hadn't even been to an abstinence class. "Oh I can't go to the health department and get free condom/bc/exams because so and so works there and they'll tell my parents/pastor/whoever."
"If I go someone could see me." and so on. It doesn't matter that the employees are bound by law to keep their mouths shut. The girls that are not lazy and aware, for whatever reason, can't bring themselves to go. Then they end up with std's or babies. In high school that scenario drove me insane. Some girls like that were my friends.
I have been sexually active since I was 15. Looking back now, that's kinda crazy. But when I became active, I always used protection. One time when the condom broke, as hard as it was, I took myself up to our health department and got morning after treatment, at which time I learned I could start birth control, get regular exams, and take sexuality classes free of charge. I was the only one out of all my friends that did that, and now being almost 23, I am the only one without surprise children. It was hard at first, but overall it was so easy and such a large blessing. I want to make sure my family is planned and created at a time in my life when it can be the happiest possible.
Any move to attack such things, even if it is a feeble move, blows my mind. And remember that as pathetic of an attempt as this was, it was still an attempt by one of the most powerful people in the country.
Comet, redefining contraception as abortion allows insurance companies to stop covering it, and in some cases forbids it to state plans, upon which many low-income women (myself included) are dependent.
And if any move such as this slips through the cracks, 10 times as many people as my stupid friends will join them in their position as teenagers.
Federal law does not prohibit abortion! Nor does the Constitution outlaw it for all.
Lacking prohibition still doesn't protect services from being made dam near impossible to receive.
Secondly, this "law" will never pass!
I agree. Thank goodness it probably won't. I knew that when I started the thread. My main reason was just to vent, and point out out incredibly blind, closed minded, and extreme our president for the last 8 years can be. We are lucky he didn't begin to feel passionate about contraception and selling public property 4 years ago, instead of a few weeks before he gets the bump.
