Let Kids Have Sex
Juno won an academy award, Jamie Lynn Spears is 16 and pregnant, and we have the highest teen pregnancy rate in the western world.
So much for the abstinence movement.
Lets face it, kids are going to have sex and as much as parents and educators want children to believe it, there is no such thing as virgin chic. Which is why I support the temporary sterilization of teenage girls.
Contraceptive implants which can last up to five years would lower the teenage pregnancy rate, abortion rate, and save our country billions of dollars in public healthcare costs. And considering 95% of all teenage pregnancies are unintended, it would keep millions of children from becoming parents before they’re prepared to.
Seriously, let kids have sex without the worry that they forgot a condom, she wasn’t on the pill or he didn’t pull out in time.
Oh, I nearly forgot, in the time it took you to read this post, another teen just got pregnant. Have a nice day.
ummm where did you get your facts? Quit telling lies,PLZ
I don’t see the point. Abstinence is only 99.9999% effective anyway.
Trying to control the person, (especially the sexuality) is incredibly dangerous to the freedom of the people. I couldn’t be anymore against such an unnatural method of birth control than a form of “implanted temporary sterilization.” Proper education and wise parenting will go much further than forcing things among children and teens. This implant is basically the same as stitching your children with GPS markers. It’s just another way for parents to control their kids.
Besides, this sterilization also only treats a symptom of the real problem. Defining said problem is far more important. Isolating the greatest demographic of teen pregnancy can help to find said problem. Intution will bring about that lower-class, lower-educated children and teens are generally at the greatest risk of early pregnancy. Solve the problem of the lower class, and you can solve teen pregnancy.
I’m open for discussion at the email provided.
Is the above person completely oblivious to all other factors associated with sex.
Like pregnancy is the worst STD every? Ever hear of AIDS.
There is nothing wrong with teenagers having sex but the idea of mass sterilization?
Please. The world does not need more idiotic rhetoric as a response to a serious problem.
Perhaps education might be a more proper answer, or is that something that is too non-rights abusing to you?
Obviously, nothing replaces proper parenting and education. I was not calling for doors to be broken down, and kids to be dragged out into the streets and sterilized.
I do believe if my daughter (and I don’t have one) were to become sexually active — that among the many things that we’d discuss one thing would be the option of long term contraceptive implants.
The implant would be simply to prevent pregnancy — it would be a replacment for the pill.
Not a replacement for traditional safeguards that prevent the spread of stds, like condoms, screenings, and sound judgement.
For more statistics on teen pregnancy:
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/2006/09/12/USTPstats.pdf
-dylan