Abstinence
- Posted by Imriel on October 8th, 2007 filed in Contraception, Intriguing Medical Theories, STD Prevention, Language, Human Rights, Safety
Greetings all!
I noticed that we hadn’t had much to say at all of late and that made me a bit sad. Especially since there are quite a few things topic wise that are being “discussed” lately or you know today!
No, I am not talking about a certain senator from Idaho, I am talking about what the White House announced today in regards to Sex Ed. As the post title indicates, the Administration’s campaign is rather onesided towards Abstinence and present a certain flawed view of many things from the “risks” of sexual activity to several unscientific claims about abortion.
While it is bad enough that this sort of disinformation and ideology can be in the mainstream and all, to me the greatest concern is that these Health Programs which have a transparent agenda are not only government funded, but actual Government Policy. Well, that’s actually not quite true, my greatest concern is that there is relatively little outcry about this action and things like it.
Here are some links for further information:
The first is the news story that I found and the second is the Government site with video of the accompanying ad campaign. Talk amongst ye-selves, as Peaches would say.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/08/4parents-abstinence/
http://4parents.gov/index.html
October 17th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
An Update on this post!
So, on Monday President Bush appointed Susan Orr to oversee family planning for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as she is “highly qualified.” This is interesting to me since she has in the past called contraceptives part of a “Culture of Death” and has done, it would seem, everything possible to make contraceptives less available for federal employees and prevent their usage by any NGOs (non-governmental agencies) who recieve any federal monies. It concerns me that she is deemed qualified for anything that involves “family planning” much less that she is in charge!
Here’s a link with more information.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/17/susan-orr/