News “While we all hope that our teens will remain abstinent, we must acknowledge that over half of all teens are having sex.”
posted by on March 7 at 21:57 PM
After five years of making it through the House, but getting nowhere in the Senate, the sex ed bill —mandating that sex ed be medically accurate and that abstinence cannot be taught at the exclusion of contraception—passed the state Senate today, 30-19.
This means, pending the Governor’s signature, it’s good to go.
Applauding the news, Karen Cooper, executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Washington, who I’m quoting up above, also said, “teens need accurate, complete information about sexual health in order to avoid unwanted pregnancy and protect themselves against sexually transmitted diseases.”
I Slogged about the bill when the House held hearings in late January. Here’s an important update to those original posts: The local chapter of Planned Parenthood does not advocate that Washington schools use a text called Making Sense of Abstinence. I’m bringing this up because an abstinence-only group called AWARE, which testified at the House hearings I slogged about, had accused PP of pushing the book on local schools. Furthermore, the book, which was advertised on a PP web site in New Jersey, does not advocate that teens look at porn, as AWARE testimony also claimed.
Abstinence. This makes no sense. Follow me here. Abortion is wrong because, heck, you could have aborted Beethoven or Einstein. I see this argument all the time. But Beethoven's or Einstein's parents could have just as easily prevented them by engaging in abstinence. So abstinence must be wrong too. When you reach puberty it is your god-given duty to have sex as often as possible and as fruitfully as possible.
"Doeth the rabbit of the field think unto himself that he shall abstain when he shall see before him a bit of hot tail. Nay, verily, and neither do I say this unto you." John 8:10 (this is the original coptic, which explains why the whore bit doesn't show up until the middle ages)
Josh, I want to know why Paull Shin voted against it when he was a sponsor of the bill.
It would be interesting to find out why Paull Shin voted against it when he was a sponsor of the bill.
Crap. Sorry for the double post.
Hurray!
triple crap - that a lot of crap
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GOOD WORK DEMS, ABOUT TIME TO BLAST THE FOLLY OF THE MORALITY POLICE
I raised three kids, gave them good books and condoms at puberty, a few very straight forward candid answers
All seem well adjusted, happily married. My daughter told me years later, she wasn't too active but her girlfriends really appreiated them.
May sanity and rational thinking prevail.
Nevertheless, teens do look at porn, no matter what it takes. I still remember my first porn, a picture captures from a computer hijacked on pcanywhere with a 14.4 modem (come to think of it, my mom's office had very weird ways of letting users access their email from home). Think slow, like 15-minutes-per-page slow. Especially since porn in those days was like car keys: you could be sure never to find any if you were looking for it.
The interesting thing is how many are in Middle School.
Seriously. At least, that's what my high school ages son told me.
My mom is a super christian. She comes from a family of super christians. In 1959, while in high school, and after being taught by her parents (and strict christian code) that NO SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE, aka abstinence.
Oddly enough she was either 3 months pregnant with my sister when she got married or my sister was 3 months premature. I'm guessing it was the first thing.
So, abstinence worked out real well for her. Oh yeah, they divorced in 1976. You guessed it, they are pro-life, anti-gay marriage.
Someone needs to ask the Republicans why they have this intense, bizarre fear of sex. If you read the Senate debate in the paper, it really sounds like they're about to become even more unhinged than usual. Didn't a study recently confirm that 95% of Americans have sex before marriage? Talk about hysterical denial of reality.
"Ignorance Only" education isn't policy; it's pathology.
"Talk about hysterical denial of reality."
The hallmark of the religious right.
To tell you the truth, I don't have a problem with them sticking their heads in the sand. Just don't make everyone else subscribe to it. In other words, if you don't want your kids to hear about condoms, home school the little bastards.
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