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From: jayt@ssc-vax.UUCP (Jay T McCanta)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Family Planning
Message-ID: <528@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Mar-85 18:23:29 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 18 18:23:29 1985
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> 	My question for the listening audience is this: Do you think
> planned parenthood programs that provide contraception and education
> to teenagers are the cause of the high teenage pregnancy rate in this
> country? Or are there other things that convince teenagers to have
> sex early and without any contraception?  This argument is important;
> the current administration bases a lot  of its stand on family planning
> programs on the premise that these programs are responsible for the
> high teenage pregnancy rates.
>  


The present administration prefers abstainence(sp) as the number one choice
of teen-age contraception.  The belief is that if other forms of contraception
are available, then that is the "green-light" for nookie.  

My belief is that present sex education does not go far enough.  It does 
little more than explain what goes where.  The emotional changes in 
youth can be just as great as the physical changes,  and the average teen 
is ill-prepared (i.e. not unable) to deal with them.  There is a genuine fear
that if too much information on sex is available to teens, they will become
sexually active (with studies have shown is the opposite of the truth).

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Jay McCanta
Boeing Aerospace
Kent, Wa.