Posted on 05/29/2025 9:33:12 AM PDT by Morgana
NEW YORK, May 23 (C-Fam) The World Health Organization (WHO) released a new guideline on preventing adolescent pregnancies in low and middle-income countries. The proposed framework advances a vision of sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for young people that promotes controversial ideas, and norm changes inconsistent with what governments have agreed to.
Revised for the first time in over a decade, the guideline focuses almost exclusively on preventing adolescent pregnancies through increased and prolonged contraception use, including “self-administered injectable contraception,” and access to sexuality education.
In its recommendations, the WHO frames adolescents’ choice to discontinue “contraceptive use due to side-effects, and due to changing life circumstances and reproductive intentions” in a negative light and as an obstacle to overcome.
The framework calls on mobilizing “[p]olitical, governmental, religious, traditional and other influential leaders” to “support the access to, uptake of, and continued use of contraceptives.”
The guideline also asks policymakers to ensure that laws on age and consent related to sexual activities are designed in such a way as to promote adolescents’ access to contraception. Such a move could mean lowering the age of legal consent or making regulations more flexible to enable young people’s access to contraception without stigma.
Critics note that an exclusive focus on mass contraceptive use among adolescents monopolizes the discourse on how to best prevent adolescent pregnancies and undermines efforts to tackle the problem holistically.
The 112-page guideline does not mention the merits of raising awareness about the negative consequences of nonmarital sexual behavior through programs centered around abstinence and delay of sexual debut.
Critics also disagree with the WHO framing adolescents’ opposition to contraceptives due to side effects or religious beliefs as based on myths and misinformation.
Beyond its recommendations on contraceptives, the guideline promotes adolescents’ access to sex education, saying that “[m]any adolescents are unaware…[on how] to have sex safely and pleasurably.”
The document references the latest UN inter-agency technical guidance on comprehensive sexuality education (CSE), which has helped shape sexuality education curricula and materials in many countries around the world.
The technical guidance dedicates an entire section to the “Social Construction of Gender and Gender Norms,” teaching children aged 5-8 the difference between biological sex and gender and encouraging them to “reflect on how they feel about their biological sex and gender.” The same section says children aged 9-12 should be able to “explain how someone’s gender identity may not match their biological sex” and “acknowledge that masturbation does not cause physical or emotional harm.”
Another goal laid out in the CSE guidance is that children aged 12- 15 are able to state that sexual “fantasies and desires are natural and not shameful and occur throughout life.”
The WHO guideline on preventing adolescent pregnancies is prefaced with the notion that “the global community has reaffirmed its commitment to advancing adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).”
UN member states have not affirmed such a commitment. SRHR is a controversial term at the UN and has never been agreed to by consensus. Its imprecise and controversial interpretation by the UN system does not enjoy support from socially conservative countries who routinely dissociate from any SRHR references.
My gosh...these evil minions just won’t stop or let up.
Lord, please help...especially the innocents.
Maybe Putin will nuke Geneva.
Sex among teenagers has declined dramatically, primarily due to social media. If all your interactions are on your phone....
There are plenty of unpleasant caveats with these types of hormonal birth control. And the earlier you start them the greater the problems later on. Including decreased fertility. Which, in my opinion, is part of the whole project. If they can mess with the fertility of these adolescents then there will be fewer pregnant adult women later on. Bill Gates will be pleased.
Well, the one way that the Left can claim to be Americans by culture is that they are obvious contrarians. We keep telling them “just leave the kids alone”, and they keep refusing... and they’ll keep losing millions more votes every cycle!
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its not about promoting health, thats the camo for the real goal
sex rights for kids, so the prog cho mos cam have at it with our children.
Crazy.
Lotta different agendas walk under the freak flag.
Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
Unite humanity with a living new language.
Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
Balance personal rights with social duties.
Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
Be not a cancer on the Earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.
They're serious about eliminating most of the human race.
I might be wrong but as I understand, Getty images are not to be posted.
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Yeah. It’s called the mRNA Vaccine. The only advice I trust comes from my dog and my intuition. The institutions of government are not your friends. In reality they are quite the opposite. They are your mortal enemy.
I did not know that you couldn’t post pics from these sites. I’ll have to check closer in the future, thanks.
I get it - companies are bought and sold and having a published list that's not enforced exposed FR to liability. No list - each infraction is dealt with it when found.
WHO aka Warmongers Habitually Obnoxious
I generally just grab stuff off of Google images and never gave it a thought. I figured if it’s on Google for everyone to see . . what’s the problem? But lawyers and corps can be a nasty headache so I’ll watch it in the future.
How great for the proprietors that peddle kids for sex!
No down time for abortions! How convenient for pedophiles!
Our government sure does take care of business people!
The global elite are saving the planet for themselves.
Plus just enough peasants to keeps themselves fed and comfortable.
So the kids should get acclimated to injecting themselves. This way another mRNA vax can get around adult restrictions and destroy the young people of the nation.
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