tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33752164.post99680609140197700..comments2023-07-12T06:26:17.735-02:00Comments on Motherhood Deleted: So Much For "Abstinence Only"Robinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07580241881953821182noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33752164.post-10501502356393478012008-12-31T21:06:00.000-02:002008-12-31T21:06:00.000-02:00Oh, I feel like busting into song; Memories, la-la...Oh, I feel like busting into song; Memories, la-la-la". More like the beginning of my worst nightmares.<BR/><BR/>True that, Anonymous.<BR/><BR/>After Zachary was born and relinguished, my father tried to sue Planned Parenthood when I took my sister for birth control, finally legal. Talk about folks who "either disn't/don't get it, or don't get it right". He witnessed the worst moments of my young life and backed the wrong horse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33752164.post-88610701577019849212008-12-29T21:09:00.000-02:002008-12-29T21:09:00.000-02:00I was equally ignorant about sex, birth control an...I was equally ignorant about sex, birth control and anything to do with pregnancy. I had to learn as I went. I could not equate the thing that my boyfriend and I did with what I thought must be the sacred thing that married people did to become pregnant. It was like I had to grow up and face facts, fast. When one of my friends suggested an abortion, I had to ask her what that was. The very idea scared me to death because a doctor would be breaking the law if he did that.Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07580241881953821182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33752164.post-41674137519254288032008-12-29T21:03:00.000-02:002008-12-29T21:03:00.000-02:00Robin,When I think of all the money wasted on abst...Robin,<BR/><BR/>When I think of all the money wasted on abstinence programs it makes me sick what a pure waste when the actual birth control is so effective, teaching young women to protect themselves even if they are in love.<BR/><BR/>The money spent on adoption programs, instead of helping adopters, could help each young mother that got pregnant through those abstinence programs that schools and federal government thinks are working, stupid, virginity promises, or the parents not believing "their" daughter could get pregnant,(we all know those) or the simple fact that schools don't teach birth control and where to get it. <BR/><BR/>Education on all facets of sex, and birth control. <BR/><BR/>I can remember going to the library looking through the encyclopedias to TRY and educate myself. In the sixties, we were just not told the truth when I think about it my mother barely told me about what to use after I started my period. I remember the stupid movie, that told me, I was a woman when I started my period.<BR/><BR/>Then when I fell in love, had sex,and got pregnant suddenly I was a girl who was pregnant, not a woman. Funny how that works, but its called effective use of language.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com