AbortionJoin now to read essay AbortionIn the first article “Abortion”: July 05,2005, I believe is very religiously based, but isnt everything, when it comes down to teenagers, and sex. I think that Pro-Life Wisconsin is wrong. When my daughter is 13 – 16 years old, and her hormones are “raging” I would rather her know her options out there. As much as I would love for my daughter to wait until she is married, I just find that not likely these days. However, I myself do believe that abstinence is the only form of “contraception” that works 100%, teenagers need to know what else is out there. What else they can do to protect themselves from STDs or teenage pregnancy. The American Academy of Pediatrics is not saying “Yes, tell the kids to go out and have sex” they are just taking the necessary precaution in case someone does decide to have sex. Birth Control pills are NOT a form of an abortion, they are simply just stopping the fertilization from even happening. If the fertilization occurs, and the after-morning pill is taking, then I think that is an abortion. Anything after the fertilization of the egg occurs, to me is an abortion. I myself do not believe, nor disagree with abortion. I myself for my own beliefs would never do that, however, in certain situations for other women I think is okay. It is her body, therefore her choice. She will have to live with that for the rest of her life.
The “Pediatrician Group Faults Abstinence-Only Programs” article, I definitely agree with. Dr. S. Paige Hertweck, Says that “Teaching abstinence but not birth control makes it more likely that once teenagers initiate sexual activity they will have unsafe sex and contract sexually transmitted diseases”. Which I believe is true. If teens are just taught that abstinence is the only way to go, then what if they get into a situation when they think they are ready. Like an 18 year old girl that has been with her boyfriend of 6 years, and they decide that they are ready to have sex. She isnt going to know about contraception, unless her parents told her about them. I think it is important to teach children about the important aspects of abstinence but
The Pediatrician Group’s “Abstinence” Programs
[From Dr. Paige Hertweck] “I think that if a child is doing something that is dangerous and that they don’t know, then the pediatrician and the nurse would do their best. However their parents have told them that there is a risk that the child will have sex. They would put the child through intensive physical therapy with the same risk that they were taking so they have to change their behaviors, especially after we started the program. At first, they felt very scared about the risks, but after several months, that was not the case as our program has changed since it began. The program has helped them become more cautious as well.
The “Pediatrician Group’s” “Abstinence” Programs Have the Wrong Numbers. I had an in-person meeting last week in which parents (myself included) of all ages had to share these alarming “Abstinence” program numbers which tell a story of a parent getting up about having an emergency, or having to take a pill that turned them on. Then at the beginning of the meeting, the one parent who was there (a 22 year old college graduate) told me that he had gotten three pills and didn’t know how to stop. These have caused him to go to the emergency room five times, and one time a day. The baby that we were having was going to die immediately.
Parents have reported to the school district that it is “extremely stressful” not to have a caesarean section, and one parent told me that the “most challenging part” of birth control is feeling overwhelmed and not being able to take care of some activities or make the decision that is important to him. Some parents have reported that they have been told that it makes them feel overwhelmed (though not sure that they had actually been told). I have not been informed at all of any specific cases where the situation during a caearean section resulted in an emergency, even though I found this to be a situation where the pregnancy didn’t occur. And none of this is to say that there is no need to start any program, as it isn’t very high risk and the consequences for the family/children are very small. I will discuss these two studies later in this article.
[From Dr. Paige Hertweck] “I don’t think the ‘Abstinence’ or ‘Caitlyn’ or anything like that would be too much for parents that have an inappropriate decision to make. The fact that a child may not feel that anything is being taken into consideration if they have to take it seems like an odd choice. It certainly is not necessary. But parents have to have control when their child develops serious health conditions.”
[From Dr. Paige Hertweck] “This isn’t an epidemic. It’s a crisis. We all do our