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myOtaku.com: X Shadowme X

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

There's been a lot of talk in Christian/conservative circles about abortion, sex ed, and how the two are linked. Always about how abortion is murder (which I agree with) and about how sex ed programs contribute to teen pregnancy and therefore exacerbate the abortion problem (which I don't).

However, abstinance programs aren't completely useless either. They're misleading and often misguided, but not altogether useless.

What needs to happen is a combination of the two: all the information about birth control in sex ed AND all the information about the emotional, psychological risks of sex.

Because what's happening now is, sex is either completely glorified or completely debased, and neither one of these views is true. People need to know what they're signing up for. They need to know about all the risks, all the precautions, all the things that could happen whether they have a "happy ending" or not.

I've heard stories from several married women about how even though they couldn't be more satisfied with their marriage, from time to time they're still haunted by ghosts of their ex-boyfriends/men they used to sleep with. Sex has the potential to bind you in some way to the one you sleep with forever--whether you want to be bound to them forever or not. Nobody tells you this in school, and they need to. If they did, maybe there would be more precaution and maybe abortion needn't be so necessary.

Also, people who protest abortion need to put their money where their mouths are and step up when it comes to things like pregnency centers and in-school day-cares. The stories I've heard of the mediocrity of pregnancy centers are terrible. They won't even give young mothers a crib! How can they expect these young women to birth and raise a baby when their own church won't even support them?

I know I for one, when and if I have financial stability, am going to invest as much money as I can to centers like this and harass the shit out of them until employees/volunteers get their heads out of their self-righteous asses and support the women they're trying to save. I mean, come on! Is it too much to ask to have a little sensitivity here?

Also, people bitch all day long about how in-school day-cares for teenage mothers encourage teen pregnency. I don't know about you, but I can't think of a single girl off the top of my head who sees that her school offers day-care and thinks to herself "Oh, I guess it's okay for me to have unsafe sex with whoever I want then."
No, in-school day-care is a resource for women/young girls who've already had children to get educated so they can make something of themselves without sacrificing the emotional/physical/psychological welfare of their child.

What it all comes down to is this: Women deserve better. They deserve better than shame and shunning from society, better than having to give their baby away to complete strangers or to have themselves cut open and their baby disected while still in the womb; and anyone who agrees with this seriously needs to step up and act on it.

I commend those who already do.

Also, I'm not necessarily saying every single girl who accidentally gets pregnant is a victim, but society plays a huge role in it both for those who are victims and those who aren't, and it definitely needs to take responsibility.

ily
~Belinda

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