The War Against Contraception
For those of you Americans who actually enjoy having sex for non-procreational purposes should be paying attention to the Bush Administration’s war against contraception. From the Center for American Progress Report:
Every day in the United States, 10,000 young people acquire a sexually-transmitted disease. Teen pregnancy rates in this country are rising, and 2.5 million people worldwide contracted HIV in 2007. Nevertheless, the Bush administration continues to push scientifically unsound policies of abstinence education and defund widely-accepted family planning programs. The price of birth control pills on college campuses, for example, has skyrocketed from as little as $5 a month to more than $40 because of changes in federal law. Yesterday, however, congressional leaders blocked President Bush’s attempt to expand abstinence funding at the expense of vital domestic priorities, freezing funding at approximately $115 million in the omnibus spending bill. They also included over $305 million for Title X programs, which provide “low-cost, confidential family planning services.”
Lord knows college students don’t have sex, and if they do, shelling out more money for contraception is going to be the first priority since they’re usually so rich and all.
Seriously, when will this national nightmare end?
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Ha - and Ha again…teen pregnancies as well as STD’s have risent since ‘05 - since federal funding for abstinence education. I see a couple of hundred high school seniors a day who will argue with anyone that those are tax dollars thrown away…what they want/need is comprhensive sex education - reproductive health/teen pregnancies are the fact of the matter. Many take the purity/virginity oath at their local churches but in the back seat of the car or at the parties in the desert its another story.
Abstinence-only sex education, while laudable, is utterly worthless. It doesn’t change when kids start having sex, and actually makes sex (if you can possibly imagine it) even more desirable amongst teen, combining teenage hormones and teenage rebelliousness (after recieving hours upon hours of Xtian propaganda about the evils of sex, it’s only natural) in an even-more unstoppable force.
And speaking of teenage pregnancies, Britney Spears’ 16-year-old sister Jamie Lynn just announced that she’s pregnant by her current boyfriend. It looks pretty certain, crazy (and career suicide) runs right through that family.