With this fact in mind, it is much more disconcerting to know that "a sexually active teen who does not use contraceptives has a 90% chance of becoming pregnant within a year."
As SLU students, we do not have free access to contraception on campus. What will this do to SLU's retention rate?
"Teen mothers are now more likely than in the past to complete high school or obtain a GED, but they are still less likely than women who delay childbearing to go on to college."
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_ATSRH.html
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B*llikens for Choice is a group of Saint Louis University** students who are pro-choice, pro-reproductive justice, and pro-sexual health. We support everyone’s right to make independent choice about their body and their sexuality, including (but not limited to): the choice to have sex, to remain abstinent, to use contraception, to have an abortion, to become a parent and to express their sexuality in whatever ways they choose to express it. We believe that people deserve information about and access to all available options in order to make safe, informed and independent decisions. As such, B*llikens for Choice believes SLU has fallen short by not providing its students adequate information on sexual health, birth control or pregnancy services. SLU is a Jesuit institution founded on the principle that “serious and sustained discourse among people of different faiths, cultures, and beliefs promotes intellectual, ethical and spiritual understanding.” We believe that active discourse around sexual health and reproductive choice fulfills this mission, and that pro-choice students must be integral participants in this discussion.
**Please note, B*llikens for Choice is a financially and ideologically independent collective of individual, independent students. Any views expressed in this blog are the views of the individual, and do not imply endorsement or support by Saint Louis University or the Society of Jesus.
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4 comments:
St. Louis is one of the deadliest cities in America. Let's give everyone body armor!
Your assumption that the teen sex rate is an irreversible part of our culture is disturbing.
Are we really just a bunch of animals who can't control ourselves? "Just slap on a condom on, you'll be fine!" It's sick.
So... no condoms and use the honor system? How about just slap a condom on and you have a far less chance of contracting an STD or having an unplanned pregnancy? Other more complex issues of sexual expression of course need to be addressed, but that has nothing to do with condoms. Plus it's unfair to assume that all those who have sex before marriage experience nothing more than meaningless orgasms. Teenagers have pre-marital sex, at times out of genuine love and at times out of boredom... and I'm sure plenty of other reasons.
As I said in a comment elsewhere on the blog, sex divorced from its consequences leads to a mentality that sex is just for pleasure or for commitment which is as transient as the high relationships that give it context. When this is the case, those people will have a difficult time overcoming the tendencies of viewing sex as much less than a renewing of a lifelong commitment to love.
Not only is sex wonderful, but it has its place, and our culture and society is not unaffected by those who decide to take it out of its context.
Ultimately, I would accept if the standard in the US was sex between consenting adults who were committed to one another but not necessarily married. Instead, the standard is sex with anyone and, in many cases especially regarding teens, as many people as one can.
That's the thing about choice. Daniel, you can decide that sex FOR YOU is "a renewing of a lifelong committment to love." Someone else might view it differently. Some others, as it was stated, might have sex out of boredom. On the spectrum I think I would personally want to be more toward the former than the latter, but everyone has the right to choose what sex means for them and how they want (or don't want) to engage in it.
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