Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Happy National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Posted by Kevin Allman on Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:15 PM
...but I forgot to get you a card:
Hundreds of thousands of teens nationwide are expected to participate in the eighth annual National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy on May 6, 2009.
The "ambassador" for the movement is America's most written-about teen mom, Bristol Palin, who went on both Good Morning America and The Today Show to spread the abstinence message. Here's what she said on GMA:
Regardless of what I did personally, I just think that abstinence is the only way you can effectively, 100% foolproof way you can prevent pregnancy ... I just want to go out there and promote abstinence and say, this is the safest choice. This is the choice that's going to prevent teen pregnancy and prevent a lot of heartache.
While I don't disagree with the message -- what's the difference between Bristol Palin promoting abstinence and Corey "C-Murder" Miller promoting non-violence, as he did at his now-famous April 14 presser?
Standing just inside the front door of his grandmother's Kenner home where he is confined to house arrest while awaiting for his second-degree murder trial, rapper Corey "C-Murder" Miller renounced the rash of homicides in the metro area today at a press conference."This must come to an end, and it must end now," said Miller, who was joined in the Place Pontchartrain subdivision with area pastors who in general terms announced anti-crime initiatives.
"My heart goes out to all the victims of violence," Miller said.
Miller was smacked around on talk radio and in the nola.com comments for the hypocrisy inherent in his "do as I say, not as I do" message, which is fine ... but what's the diff between Miller's amessage and a teen mom telling other teens to keep it zipped "no matter what I did personally"?
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Meanwhile, her boyfriend is giving a much more realistic advice over at CBS by at the very least acknowledging that using birth control is a damn good way of avoiding pregnancy and STDs even if it isn't "as good" as abstinence. (Mathematically speaking this may be true -- but in practical terms when all you preach is abstinence, pregnancies increase.) Why can't people take a more pragmatic approach to this issue? Nature basically tells all living things to reproduce as soon as they reach biological maturity to do so. In humans this means the urges kick in at a much earlier age than our social minds would like us to actually reproduce. The only solution here is so either follow the lead of societies like Iran and Saudi Arabia -- who completely segregate the sexes and monitor strictly the movements, behaviors and dress of women (in particular, since they carry the children to term), or we fess up to our liberal Democratic roots and accept that teens might slip away and have sex. I think any good parent addresses this issue early -- and not just by instilling the "fear of God" in their kids. That doesn't work, people. As such, Bristol Palin is a perfect poster child for the hypocrisy of those that thing they can scare and/or moralize their teens into rejecting their biologial urges. PS: Abstinence preaching has also led to a rather odd repercussion. If you use pregnancy and the min inhibitor of sex, teens (driven by their biological instincts) find "loopholes" in the form of unprotected anal intercourse and oral sex, which eventually leads to unprotected sexual congress. Hiding behind the Bible doesn't remove these facts from the equation
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