Yay, another interesting discussion! This discussion had a lot to do with contraceptions, abortions, and high school health classes. Interesting, right? I thought so!
This blog is going to be written with different key points in the discussion that stood out to me. It may seem like it's all over the place at some points, but just bare with me. My mind likes to jump from one interesting topic to the other in a millisecond. I apologize in advance.
In this presentation, many of the statistics presented to the class were pretty shocking to me, for I haven't studied the topics thoroughly before. To begin, it was stated that only 1 in 4 people are using condoms correctly. Ah, God, that scares me a lot and also explains so much to me at the same time. I'm also pretty confused at how so few people do not know how to put on a condom. It's not that hard...I've done it before successfully without any tutorial with a banana or cucumber or dildo or anything! Strike one for health/sex education in schools...tsk tsk.
Back in the day of Roe V. Wade, one fifth of all maternal deaths were caused by illegal and unsafe procedures. Although it's been a few decades since Roe V. Wade, there are still "back alley" abortions happening everyday. How terrifying is that? And it's not specifically looking better yet, considering the decreased in facilities providing services such as abortions. In 1982, there were 2,900 of these facilities; in 2005, it has been documented that there were only 1,800 facilities. That should be horrifying to everyone out there.
Another scary thought/concept that the group presenting put into my head: a lot of people are pro-life AND pro-choice at the same time. HUH? Basically, people believe that a person should have control over their bodies (therefore allowing abortions), but are personally against the procedure (therefore against abortion). I've never thought about it that way before. This is definitely the root of the problem, and it's truly hard to pinpoint how exactly to fix it.
Crisis Pregnancy Centers: I've heard of them before, but not in depth (until now). First, I did not know they are state sponsored organizations. In my opinion, that shouldn't be allowed, but I digress. Out of all CPCs, 92% have no medical professionals on staff, 1 in 2 suggest that birth control is ineffective, and 1 in 4 suggest that abortion leads to cancer. I don't even know what to say about these statistics. They are just wrong. I mean, I know people have Freedom of Speech and whatnot, but this speech isn't even correct. How is this state-sponsored? I'm terrified even more for the world after learning about this in class.
Below is one CPC's webpage that the group mentioned in class. I did some browsing on my own time. They do a VERY good job at being subtle and seemingly intelligent about the way they present their information. I can see why people could be fooled by the page. It provides just enough information for someone to get interested, but not enough to know the grim truth about these programs. Therefore, if a person is really scared about having an abortion, they would have to go into one of the centers, where they would be questioned and convinced out of an abortion, despite of how they originally felt. Disturbing. AND they outnumber abortion clinics and other sexual health centers. WHY, WORLD?
http://www.optionline.org/
Oh, and just to add another horrid strike to sex education in middle/high schools, some of the programs that are allowed to be shown in school or other places are horrible, especially the abstinence-only programs. Hello? They are not effective. Why are you trying? Also, the analogies that are used are so disgusting (I've used some gross words in this blog. I hope you understand the extent of my disgust). For example, the "sticky tape" analogy: after it's touched so many times, it's useless, right? Well so are people, especially women (because that's society for you). Another example is where a certain program passes around a piece of candy, letting everyone touch it. After everyone touches it, the instructor asks, "Now who wants it?" No one, of course. The candy is gross and infected with germs now and not pure. Oh, look, this applies to people, kids!
Shame on you, sex ed. Shame on you.
Happy 18th birthday, Kat Halstead. Your day is here. I shall miss you forever.
This blog is going to be written with different key points in the discussion that stood out to me. It may seem like it's all over the place at some points, but just bare with me. My mind likes to jump from one interesting topic to the other in a millisecond. I apologize in advance.
In this presentation, many of the statistics presented to the class were pretty shocking to me, for I haven't studied the topics thoroughly before. To begin, it was stated that only 1 in 4 people are using condoms correctly. Ah, God, that scares me a lot and also explains so much to me at the same time. I'm also pretty confused at how so few people do not know how to put on a condom. It's not that hard...I've done it before successfully without any tutorial with a banana or cucumber or dildo or anything! Strike one for health/sex education in schools...tsk tsk.
Back in the day of Roe V. Wade, one fifth of all maternal deaths were caused by illegal and unsafe procedures. Although it's been a few decades since Roe V. Wade, there are still "back alley" abortions happening everyday. How terrifying is that? And it's not specifically looking better yet, considering the decreased in facilities providing services such as abortions. In 1982, there were 2,900 of these facilities; in 2005, it has been documented that there were only 1,800 facilities. That should be horrifying to everyone out there.
Another scary thought/concept that the group presenting put into my head: a lot of people are pro-life AND pro-choice at the same time. HUH? Basically, people believe that a person should have control over their bodies (therefore allowing abortions), but are personally against the procedure (therefore against abortion). I've never thought about it that way before. This is definitely the root of the problem, and it's truly hard to pinpoint how exactly to fix it.
Crisis Pregnancy Centers: I've heard of them before, but not in depth (until now). First, I did not know they are state sponsored organizations. In my opinion, that shouldn't be allowed, but I digress. Out of all CPCs, 92% have no medical professionals on staff, 1 in 2 suggest that birth control is ineffective, and 1 in 4 suggest that abortion leads to cancer. I don't even know what to say about these statistics. They are just wrong. I mean, I know people have Freedom of Speech and whatnot, but this speech isn't even correct. How is this state-sponsored? I'm terrified even more for the world after learning about this in class.
Below is one CPC's webpage that the group mentioned in class. I did some browsing on my own time. They do a VERY good job at being subtle and seemingly intelligent about the way they present their information. I can see why people could be fooled by the page. It provides just enough information for someone to get interested, but not enough to know the grim truth about these programs. Therefore, if a person is really scared about having an abortion, they would have to go into one of the centers, where they would be questioned and convinced out of an abortion, despite of how they originally felt. Disturbing. AND they outnumber abortion clinics and other sexual health centers. WHY, WORLD?
http://www.optionline.org/
Oh, and just to add another horrid strike to sex education in middle/high schools, some of the programs that are allowed to be shown in school or other places are horrible, especially the abstinence-only programs. Hello? They are not effective. Why are you trying? Also, the analogies that are used are so disgusting (I've used some gross words in this blog. I hope you understand the extent of my disgust). For example, the "sticky tape" analogy: after it's touched so many times, it's useless, right? Well so are people, especially women (because that's society for you). Another example is where a certain program passes around a piece of candy, letting everyone touch it. After everyone touches it, the instructor asks, "Now who wants it?" No one, of course. The candy is gross and infected with germs now and not pure. Oh, look, this applies to people, kids!
Shame on you, sex ed. Shame on you.
Happy 18th birthday, Kat Halstead. Your day is here. I shall miss you forever.
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