"There are vast resources to prevent pregnancy." The problem is these resources aren't being shown or taught to many teenage women, and though the resources are vast, the access is astoundingly low for a "first-world" country. On top of this, if I have to get accosted outside of a clinic for getting Plan-B, or have operations that front as a clinic and then teach abstinence-only education and leading your way back to god, then those vast resources aren't making their way to the women who need them. There needs to be great consideration toward thinking about the underlying societal problems that trigger higher teen pregnancy in urban communities of color and not just reprimanding women to "close their legs" and telling men to "keep it in their pants."
Comment Reply
"There are vast resources to prevent pregnancy." The problem is these resources aren't being shown or taught to many teenage women, and though the resources are vast, the access is astoundingly low for a "first-world" country. On top of this, if I have to get accosted outside of a clinic for getting Plan-B, or have operations that front as a clinic and then teach abstinence-only education and leading your way back to god, then those vast resources aren't making their way to the women who need them. There needs to be great consideration toward thinking about the underlying societal problems that trigger higher teen pregnancy in urban communities of color and not just reprimanding women to "close their legs" and telling men to "keep it in their pants."
December 28, 2009 - 10:47amThis Comment
Reply