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Which is worse: Your child on the Pill or in the maternity ward?

April 29th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

By
Suzanne Moore

PUBLISHED:

16:10 EST, 28 April 2012

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UPDATED:

19:53 EST, 28 April 2012

Maybe 'needy girls' are capable of feeling sexual desire as 'naturally' as boys presumably feel it, Suzanne Moore says

Maybe ‘needy girls’ are capable of feeling sexual desire as ‘naturally’ as boys presumably feel it, Suzanne Moore says

I am with Sly Stone on Babies Makin’ Babies.

As he sang in 1973: ‘Tell the truth to the youth.’

That takes soul. Which is seriously lacking in the debate about whether we give some 13-year-old girls contraception.

No one wants 13-year-old girls to have sex, except possibly – I am speculating wildly here – some boys.

Boys? Remember them? Somehow their sexual education or even their feelings do not figure at all in this debate.

Contraception is always spoken of as a female problem – even when we are talking about young girls.

Perhaps needy girls, who think having
sex is the most grown-up thing they are capable of, or even girls who
feel sexual desire as ‘naturally’ as we assume boys feel it.

Teenagers have sex below the age of consent.

The moral dam erected to stop the river of hormones burst a long time ago.

Pragmatists want to stop girls getting pregnant.

Parents don’t want to think or talk about their children’s sexuality. Moralists think all of it is disgraceful.

Many of us shift uncomfortably between these positions, or simply hand over the responsibility to someone else.

The State steps in not to undermine parental consent but because often there is no parental conversation to be had beyond: ‘Don’t have sex, don’t get pregnant, don’t have an abortion, don’t make me think about this.’

The people who get most upset about teenage pregnancy tend to be on the Right.

Yet one reason for schemes piloting the selling of contraceptive pills to underage girls is precisely to do with the Tory ‘modernisation’ of the NHS.

Pharmacies are to be used to offer far more tests and services, thus allowing GPs to do more profitable work.

The doling out of the Pill or implants without proper monitoring feels very suspect, medically, but we know that about 16 per cent of teenagers have unprotected sex.

Channel 4’s The Joy Of Teen Sex, despite its faux upbeat tone, was not very joyful at all in what it revealed.

Many girls were so nervous they would only do it in the dark.

Boys who have existed on a diet of porn are, like modern-day Ruskins, shocked at the very notion of female pubic hair.

The moral minority are vocal, often faith-based and immune to evidence.

They preach abstinence, though campaigns in the United States have shown that those who take virginity pledges are more likely to be sexually active.

In Europe, many countries have a lower age of consent – in Spain it is 13 – but there are fewer teenage pregnancies and STD cases.

There is no great mystery as to why a girl may feel her worth is purely sexual: it is the message pumped out everywhere.

However powerful a woman is, she is still rated in terms of her sexual attractiveness.

You can still easily buy a bra for a tiny girl if you so choose, despite Cameron’s nod to parental anxiety.

Everyone bemoans their girls growing up too soon, but a total failure to rein in the market that sexualises everything means we have this constant background burble which discusses female bodies either as commodities or as problems that have to be controlled.

You know the tunes, if not the words: teenage girls get pregnant to get housing, but if they have an abortion they will be ‘haunted’ for ever.

The truth is that if we really cared we would look again at the age of consent and discuss what consent actually means with young boys and girls.

I don’t doubt that 13-year-olds are coerced into sex they may regret. Obviously, I would prefer them to have a future in which they felt valued for something else.

Does the future look bright for the many teens whose escape routes are being cut off one by one?

No. Is sex an escape for an instant? Yes. That, after all, is how it is bought and sold.

So I am afraid that given the stark choice between a child being pregnant or not, the moral thing to do surely is to protect them from it happening.

My useless tears for a smiling hero

Sometimes you can make big political arguments to no avail. It’s the small things that make your heart heavy – if you can call the life of young man a small thing. Which, of course, I don’t.

For in a town last week I saw a small photo and a bunch of flowers to commemorate the death of a young man the same age as my daughter.

He was ‘a friend, a legend, a hero’.

A funeral procession in Wooton Bassett, Wiltshire, for soldiers who have died in combat

A 2009 funeral procession in Wooton Bassett, Wiltshire, for soldiers who have died in combat

He was killed in Helmand a year ago. Underneath his glorious smile, it read: ‘Killed in action, not in vain.’ I fully understand why his family need to believe this to be so.

My tears were worse than useless when, for so many years, we have been told this war is unwinnable.

Still, every week PMQs starts with a roll call of young dead men. In action, not in vain?

Poor Kate, the baby machine

Why is it acceptable to zone in on one woman’s fertility? Do we believe you can get pregnant by just holding a baby?

This appears to be the case for the Duchess of Cambridge. Poor Kate.

Meanwhile, let’s see an ovulation chart, details of her folic acid intake and some sort of scan, since clearly her lovely legs are just a vehicle for her uterus!

The Duchess of Cambridge embraces a child during a vist to Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool, earlier this year

I would not wish this on any young woman, Royal or common, though I am a republican. I suppose part of being a monarchist is exactly this graphic obsession with breeding.

No wonder Bernie’s in a hurry

Who
would have thought that billionaire Bernie Ecclestone – small and
perfectly formed – would be such a hit with the ladies? But he has just
become engaged to Fabiana Flosi, right with Bernie, a gorgeous
Brazilian 45 years younger than him. He has said it won’t be a long engagement, which is just as well as he is pushing 82.

Is THE Pope Catholic? Is George Galloway a politician? That’s why his faith is an issue.
Personally, I don’t care if he’s converted to Islam or not, as he has always appeared to believe in some higher being, some godly beast that is half man/half cat and goes, strangely enough, by the name of Galloway!

Honestly! Knowing the price of a pint of milk is not a guarantee of being in touch, rather it underlines the nuttiness of the political class.
How much is Diet Coke, Dave? And butter us up with real butter, not cheap marge. You can afford it.

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When my daughter was fourteen (she is now a middle-aged woman), I gave her a packet of birth control pills. I explained that they would not only protect her from pregnancy, but they would help her to avoid rushing into a sexual relationship, by offering her time to think seriously about this while starting the course.
As she told me later, that is exactly how it worked out and it was several years before she had her first sexual experience. So all those people now declaring that the availability of the contraceptive pill will encourage young girls to have sex are completely wrong. In addition, either we stop pretending that the facts of modern life are not what they are and the number of unwanted pregnancies continues to rise, or we encourage our girls to take responsibility to protect themselves and stop unwanted pregnancies. We cannot have it both ways.

– Macha, Spain, 29/4/2012 07:57

And just why has it to be one or the other ? What is wrong with having a daughter that is not on the pill at 13 and not likely to get pregnant as she has been brought up by two parents that have instilled some values and virtues into her ?
I’m 51. my mother brought up 4 of us alone yet she instilled manners and the difference between right and wrong. Women used to tell me I was a dying breed of gentleman. Show me a youth today that would hold open a door or give up their seat on a bus / train for a lady. A very rare person in the UK today !

– Duncan W, Samui, Thailand, 29/4/2012 07:26

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