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Monday, March 17, 2008
Robert Knight :: Townhall.com Columnist
Media Silence on the Myth of 'Safe Sex'
by Robert Knight
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Since that time, more than 10 million girls and women have contracted HPV. Thousands of them will get cervical cancer. Hundreds of thousands more who practiced “safe sex” as taught in their schools have come down with some of the more than 30 STDs that are now rampant. Many face sterility or other lifelong complications. Here are a few cited by the CDC:

Many sexually transmitted infections can cause adverse pregnancy outcomes including miscarriages, stillbirths, intrauterine growth restriction and perinatal (mother-to-infant) infections. Some STDs can cause infertility or lead to ectopic pregnancy among women and one, the human papillomavirus, can cause cervical and anogenital cancer. Furthermore, other STDs facilitate HIV transmission.

Why aren’t the media asking the following questions of the educators, liberal Congressmen and Planned Parenthood “experts” who are working to eliminate abstinence programs while shoveling yet more tax dollars to their own programs?

  • Why are you still promoting the “safe-sex” approach that is in 75 percent of U.S. schools and has obviously been a failure and perhaps even a contributing factor in the epidemic?
  • Even condom advocates caution that condoms are effective only if used in a clinical fashion that might work in a Planned Parenthood lab. Why do you assume that kids, many of whom are impaired at the time by drugs or alcohol, will put on the condom before any emission or arousal, a wildly implausible scenario?
  • Studies show that the portion of the human brain that governs the ability to resist impulse behaviors does not fully develop until people are in their 20s. Why do you think teens will approach sex in a logical, clinical fashion?
  • Schools routinely teach kids not to smoke or abuse drugs, period. They do not teach them how to do it “safely.”  Why use that rejected approach when it comes to sex?
  • How much government funding does Planned Parenthood receive annually (answer: more than $300 million) and how much of it goes to this profoundly wrong approach of “safe sex” education?
  • Why aren’t you talking more about the consequences of these diseases?

If a foreign enemy of the United States conducted a campaign that effectively destroyed sexual morality and put millions of teens at risk for lifelong diseases, we’d consider it an act of war. Instead, Congress keeps throwing tax dollars at the folks who have been responsible for this assault on our kids.

“Safe sex” proponents justify the continued madness by pointing to surveys showing that “most” Americans want more “safe sex” education for their kids. Assuming the surveys are accurate, the findings are not surprising when the media have done their best to cover up the shocking facts about the “safe sex” failures while showcasing partisan attacks on abstinence programs.

Terrified parents, who are told over and over that “experts” know what’s best for their children, have been conditioned by a compliant media to reach for the same bottle of poison, year after year.

And as last week’s legal attack on home schooling in California illustrates starkly, the sexual revolutionaries do not intend to let any children out of their media-protected net.

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Robert Knight is a Senior Writer/Correspondent for Coral Ridge Ministries and a Senior Fellow for the American Civil Rights Union.
 
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re: Mother of 4
Mother of 4 wrote:

"... Especially since everything he's said is a red herring anyway -- him having reacted to my suggestion that the changed cultural position of smoking and smokers that we've seen in the past several decades indicates that the position of premarital and extramarital sex could also be changed by attacking the smoking end rather than even discussing the point of the article."

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Liar.

You made an invalid assertion -- that since abstinence-only programs worked to curtail smoking they can work to curtail sex. I merely demonstrated why your assertion was invalid.

And rather than address the argument presented, however, you want to get all pedantic and argue about the use of the word "imperative" even AFTER I explicitly told you EXACTLY HOW the word was used in my posts.


At least be honest! (Especially since the posts are there for everyone else to read for themselves!)


And talk about red herrings! You latch onto the word "imperative" like a parasite and NEVER address my observation to you that, though abstinence has a 100% success rate, abstinence-only EDUCATION does NOT.

re: POLMsgt
POLMsgt wrote:

"... What I am getting at is there are choices, choose wrong you just may pay the negative consequences of that choice..."

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I absolutely agree! And I am a firm believer that a *huge* number of the social and political "problems" that we're experiencing NOW are derived from the entitlement mentality of encroaching socialism which absolves individuals of their personal responsibility to:

- plan for their own retirement;
- provide for their OWN children's education;
- (coming soon!) provide for their own medical care;
- provide for their own shelter (Welfare, Section 8, etcetera) and sustenance (food stamps);
- provide for their own children (WIC);
- and etcetera.

More and more, Americans EXPECT government to protect them and shelter them from the negative consequences of their choices. I firmly believe that MANY of our "problems" would fix themselves if people were accountable for their own actions.

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"... It has been suggested that abstinance doesn't work..."

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Actually, I believe it's been clearly pointed out... and the logic is irrefutable... that abstinence is 100% successful at preventing STD's and pregnancy. But that is only true when abstinence is practiced.

What has NOT been demonstrated, however, is that abstinence-only EDUCATION has been particularly successful at encouraging the practice of abstinence.
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