The thing that steamed me about this article was that is was placed on a "Health" website, with no author or contact info therein, named.
I actually sent an email to their editors:
"To be blunt, I question the veracity of this article regarding the Teen Pregnancy Pact in Massachusetts. This seems less like a health article and more like an editorial from a biased political perspective. I also find it questionable that no author is notated, nor his or her contact information given.
Thank you for your time."
I have yet to hear back. I am registering for their forums as we speak.
On a second issue, I am astounded by some of the responses here to this situation:
-clockworkgirl21: "It may have legally been rape, but was it *actually* rape? No."
Is that so? I honestly hope you never have a 15 year old daughter that is impregnated by a 24 year old homeless man, then. Think that might change your mind on the validity of statutory rape?
-Yojimbo: "These girls were trying to get pregnant, hence the author is correct, no amount of birth control would have worked cause the teens would not have used it to begin with. They were trying with focused purpose to get pregnant.
I have no doubt in my mind that these girls knew what a condom was or where in any way, shape or form unaware of other forms of birth control."
It is attitudes like this that have these girls in this mess. I don't know what kind of fucked up, backwards society you come from, but where I am from healthy human/adult sexuality and practice is taught in conjunction with birth control. I have a strong suspicion that very few, if any, of these girls have had an adult conversation about their sexuality, let alone from an educated instructor.
-xander8 "I agree with him that they shouldn't receive any tax money after doing something so stupid. They'll never be productive members of society now, so society should stop wasting money on them.
Better sex ed would help, but so would impressing upon these vapid little cunts that creating another human being is not a game or a joke."
A. You disgust me.
B. "Better" sex ed? How about ANY relevant, seemingly modern sex ed? "Teaching Abstinence" doesn't fucking cut it!
-Antichrist "I've seen some 13 year olds that could easily pass for 16. Maybe it's because I'm getting older, but I don't really blame the guy if the girl lied about her age."
Lying about their age is not putting a gun to these guy's collective heads and threatening death if they do not perform. How odd that I have never put my penis inside of a woman I didn't know very well? It's almost like I took the responsibility myself to make sure I didn't just start ejaculating between any open legs I happened upon!
Again, what if this was YOUR 15 year old daughter and she came home pregnant by a nameless 24 year old homeless man? You wouldn't pin ANY blame on him?
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Finally, this situation with the pregnant teens is just a stark and disgusting demonstration that "the Christian" way of dealing with teens and their sexuality is so back-asswards that it is starting to FUCK our nation. We, as Americans, have let these children down with the officials we have elected, and damn right it is our responsibility to take care of it.
Here is my announcement to "Religious America": No matter how hard you try, no matter what extent you go to trying to erase sexuality from the minds of teens, you are destined to fail. Only through helping teens understand their own sexuality can you even begin to hope that they will do something responsible with it. No rational person in this country gives a fuck if sex education flies in the face of your insignificant religious beliefs, there is something larger at stake than your mysticism and superstition-the future of this country.
