Posted on 08/19/2006 7:03:24 PM PDT by markomalley
A spokesman for the Scottish Catholic Church said: "Society is failing its young if it thinks that contraceptive implants are progress. Indoctrinating young people into the 'contraception culture' is obviously counter-productive."
I think that pretty well says it all...
Catholic/Prolife pings?
In my day they called these girls sluts.
This is happening in Scotland? What are the parents thinking?!!!
THIRTEEN? What 13 year old needs birth control? I was 13 years old when I got my last baby doll for Christmas.
There comes a time when you have to wonder if you've lived too long. This sure isn't what I wanted to leave my little grandsons. God help us.
In my day (just turned 60) they called these girls, girls. At 13 they were more interested in dolls and such. Sex was not something of interest among those below the age of sixteen or so. Interest in boys was confined to “does he like me” type of exchange. How times have changed. The thought of sex at 13 was just not heard of in my day (nor tolerated.)
In today’s world, if you make it to 13 without sex you are considered a freak!
I attribute this to the media (e.g. mtv, movies, music. etc.) that we are exposed to in this “enlighten” age.
I notice the one girl was 11 !
Anyone else find the term "falling pregnant" a wee bit disconcerting?
I knew the parents of two different small town girls in the late 80's who had birth control implants. I believe it was called Norplant.
One set of parents was a regular part of the local downtown bar crowd and their daughter had pretty much grown up in that atmosphere. Her mom had gotten pregnant at 16 with the older sister of the girl in question, and didn't want to be a grandma at age 36. It would have cut into her beer time, you see.
The other set of parents were both upstanding, church-going, hard-working people with a nice home in a nice neighborhood. Their daughter was an early bloomer and she did look "13 going on 25". They got her the implant because she had an outgoing nature and was very popular with the boys. They felt they had raised her right, but they remembered their own teen years and knew how easily things can "happen". The thought of their daughter getting pregnant and messing up her future is what drove their decision.
I moved out of that town during that time period and lost touch with all of the people in question, so I don't know how either one turned out.
My point is that this is nothing new.
This is a relatively new concept (so to speak) for those of us over the age of 50!
On the other hand, the effects of having a baby at 13/14/15 are well known, and include permanent physical and psychological harm to the mother, often very low birthweight with long term implications for the baby (not to mention the effects of inadequate maternal nutrition and prenatal care, and lots of maternal smoking and alcohol use, all of which are virtually universal among girls having babies as these ages), and inevitably awful effects on society. They should be installing them in 10-11-12 year olds wherever there's reason to think they'd come in handy.
There are plenty of girls both here and in the UK having babies at 11 and 12 years of age, and even a sprinkling of 10 year olds. ANYTHING that will prevent this is good. A few years back, NYC newspapers carried the story of an 11 year old who turned up at an emergency room with her obviously dead 2-3 month old baby (which had been born in a hospital), apparently not even realizing it was already dead. It was quickly determined that the baby had died of starvation, and further investigation determined that the girl had been dutifully nursing the infant with all the milk that her 11 year old body could produce. Apparently neither the girl, nor any adults who were living with her (there had to be at least one, though we were spared the details of her home life) had enough of a clue to realize that a scrawny 11 year old girl wasn't likely to be producing much milk, nor that the amount of milk a mother produces is not necessarily enough to keep an infant alive. And yet we've got people wailing that we mustn't stick Norplants in girls like this. If you ask me, the wailers are as clueless as this girl and her family.
"In my day they called these girls sluts."
And what did they call the men who bedded them?
I'll admit I'm clueless, and did already.
I suppose you are a medical professional and can explain to all of us that you know for sure that these implants can have absolutely no long term effect on prepubescent girls? Hmmm?
susie
Cool.
How about abstinence?
How about shame?
How about eliminating sex education in school?
How about limiting pornography to the adult bookstores?
How about enforcing statutory rape laws?
These all help to prevent unwanted pregnancy, so they must be good.
I agree with your point. One of the biggest issues with these long-term contraceptives is that it does nothing to reduce disease transmission. In fact, some of the research has indicated that hormonal contraceptives make a woman more susceptible to disease, because they disrupt the natural immune-system defenses.
They're simply setting these girls up to be used by boys, not to mention older men, and surely nobody thinks anybody involved is going to have the slightest interest in "safe sex"!
"She told how she fell pregnant after getting drunk at the age of 11."
Drunk = pregnant?
Who knew! Guess I was lucky....
I don't. I call them sluts.
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