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Offer preteen girls sex ed and abortion while they are still ‘malleable’: Georgetown researchers
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Posted on 08/06/2014 5:34:26 PM PDT by Morgana

A new report from Georgetown University suggests that public school children should be exposed to sexually explicit sex education at age 10 – while their views are still “malleable” – and that schools could lower STD and abortion rates by providing all girls capable of reproduction with “contraceptives and safe abortion” without “parental approval.”

The report promotes the sex ed and abortion-on-demand regimen for “Very Young Adolescents (VYAs),” defined as children between the ages of 10 and 14.

“Investing in very young adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health” was written by Susan M. Igras, Marjorie Macieira, Elaine Murphy, and Rebecka Lundgren of the Institute for Reproductive Health at Georgetown University and published in Global Public Health.

According to the researchers, it is unfortunate when children view their parents as the authority on sex.

“Younger adolescents see parents as a primary source of information and support, but most parents are ill-equipped to address issues related to puberty, SRH [sexual and reproductive health], and gender roles, and lack communication skills attuned to the young adolescents in their lives,” the researchers write. “Parental desire to protect their children is often exercised through behavioral regulation and monitoring."

“Parents worry that their daughters’ emerging fertility and sexuality could lead to premarital pregnancy and keep their daughters close to home to ensure safety," the report adds.

The researchers are also concerned that parents teach their children “gender-related ‘rules'” about behaviors appropriate to each sex, such as when “parents begin preparing their daughters for roles as future wives and mothers.”

In general, “parental and community norms serve to reinforce individuals’ behaviors and relationships that lead to poor adult SRH,” the authors conclude.

They also say parental authority violates “VYA rights,” such as denying children in the 10-14 age-range birth control and abortion. Advertisement

“For those older VYAs who become sexually active, access to contraceptives and safe abortion remains largely unavailable due to regulations requiring parental approval or informal health care policies,” they state.

Their proposed public education courses are intended to combat that.

“If programs…are implemented at a time when adolescents are still malleable and relatively free of sexual and reproductive health problems and gender role biases, very young adolescents can be guided safely through this life stage,” the report concludes.

Parental groups said the proposals would harm children and insert the state in the unique relationship of a parent and child.

“Concerned Women for America supports reform of public education by returning authority to parents,” Alison Howard, communications director for Concerned Women for America, told LifeSiteNews. “We should be working toward restoring the quality of education to a level of excellence in academics without governmental mandates that are detrimental to parental rights.”

She warned that the report's suggestions of furnishing preteens with birth control and possibly abortion, with or without parental consent, will have “serious emotional and physical consequences” for young people.

“There is no denying the fact that we are in the middle of an STD epidemic, with more than 20 million new STD cases every year - the majority of them affecting 15- to 25-year-olds. Yet supposedly responsible adults still encourage early sexual activity for young boys and girls,” she said.

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Her view contrasts with that of leftist publications such as Think Progress, which complains that “just 18 states and the District of Columbia require sexual health courses to cover information about birth control. Instead of providing teens with medically accurate information about their bodies, many public school districts still rely on 'abstinence-only' courses.”

Sex education is sometimes provided by Planned Parenthood, although a series of exposes have uncovered the organization giving young teens potentially dangerous advice.

“Parents are fighting an uphill battle to protect their children from well-funded opponents like Planned Parenthood, who work within schools to infiltrate curricula with an agenda of increased sexual activity for America’s young people. Our schools and our children are not to be used as social experiments,” Howard told LifeSiteNews. “Concerned Women for America and an alliance of groups including Live Action, Alliance Defending Freedom, and the National Abstinence Education Association are working to draw attention to the emphasis and motives these groups have in targeting the most innocent among us with their message of sexual promiscuity and deterioration of parental involvement.”


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To: Morgana

I wonder if they can afford security guards.


21 posted on 08/06/2014 6:51:57 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Morgana

lolz


22 posted on 08/06/2014 6:52:33 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Morgana

This is the same crap that the Child Psychology department at the University of Minnestoopid has been pushing for nearly a decade.
Now as for giving birth control pills at such an early age, what health implications are there? I am no doctor, but that is a critical time to go messing with the endocrine system, and this malarkey is for pushing an agenda, not to treat a genuine health issue. But what the hey, we have teachers demanding students be placed on a Schedule II controlled substance, getting away with practicing medicine without a license. This is worse than dealing with a witch doctor!


23 posted on 08/06/2014 7:08:18 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: Morgana

Lundgren is the ONLY one who’s included on the Institute’s “Our Team.” Here’s here bio:

Rebecka Inga Lundgren, MPH
Director of Research; Research Instructor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Georgetown University Medical Center

Ms. Lundgren has over 25 years of comprehensive, hands-on experience developing and testing reproductive health and behavior change programs, with particular interest in expanding family planning choice, youth and engaging men in reproductive health. Rebecka’s current research interests include systematic approaches to scale-up, social barriers to family planning use and prevention of gender-based violence. As an applied anthropologist, she has expertise applying qualitative and ethnographic methods to her work, and has developed innovative mixed method approaches to evaluate fertility awareness and gender transformation programs for very young adolescents. She received a MPH from UCLA’s School of Public Health in the Department of Population and Family Health in 1987, and is currently completing her doctorate in applied anthropology at the University of Maryland.

http://irh.org/about/team/
- See more at: http://irh.org/about/team/#sthash.rphaeagv.dpuf


24 posted on 08/06/2014 7:22:59 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: Morgana; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...

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25 posted on 08/06/2014 7:24:05 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Morgana

It sounds like perverts trying to sexualities children so they can then insist the age of consent be lowered. Hang them all. Hands off our children and stay away from their fragile minds.


26 posted on 08/06/2014 7:44:16 PM PDT by formosa
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To: Morgana

Sounds like grooming to me. Men who do this would be thrown in the slammer for 20 years. MSnBS had a great series called “To catch a predator” showing these sick people who had been grooming children.

Throw a name like “Planned Parenthood” and approve it by the US government and it’s A OK.


27 posted on 08/06/2014 7:48:10 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Morgana

“Parental desire to protect their children is often exercised through behavioral regulation and monitoring.”

“Parents worry that their daughters’ emerging fertility and sexuality could lead to premarital pregnancy and keep their daughters close to home to ensure safety,” the report adds.

The report authors actually see these as bad things. They should be restricted from contact with minors just like other sexual predators. They must be vying for a job working for Obama’s school safety czar.


28 posted on 08/06/2014 7:54:42 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: Morgana

“The chicks who wrote this report must be grad students . .”

Maybe, maybe not, but two of the four are employed at Gerorgetown’s “Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

“Georgetown lives its Catholic and Jesuit tradition.” They need to drop the use of the word Catholic, and yes, the Pope is Jesuit.

Also noticed the little nugget: “Georgetown College will offer a new major in justice and peace studies starting this fall . . .”


29 posted on 08/06/2014 7:58:17 PM PDT by Daffy
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To: Morgana

More of the poison fruit of the Tree of Liberalism.


30 posted on 08/06/2014 8:03:52 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and for what Muslims do.)
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To: EDINVA
As an applied anthropologist, she has expertise applying qualitative and ethnographic methods to her work, and has developed innovative mixed method approaches to evaluate fertility awareness and gender transformation programs for very young adolescents.

LOL. Ok, seriously -- in English, just WTF does this mean? (other than "I'm a liberal kook and want your kids sexually available to adult pervs").

31 posted on 08/06/2014 8:10:34 PM PDT by workerbee (The President of the United States is PUBLIC ENEMY #1)
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To: workerbee

I think your translation is spot on.


32 posted on 08/06/2014 8:11:44 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Harvey Dent, can we trust him?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBsdV--kLoQ)
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To: Morgana

Another Reason to Homeschool

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33 posted on 08/06/2014 8:33:53 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Morgana

Georgetown is, at least in name, a Catholic University.....where’s the outrage within the institution for these depraved “experts”???


34 posted on 08/06/2014 9:06:10 PM PDT by terycarl
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Moral Absolutes Ping!

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35 posted on 08/07/2014 4:47:38 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: workerbee

Can you imagine if they’d had a photo accompanying the bio? Maybe we don’t want to imagine. Sounds like someone with her very own agenda, and a major university (nominally Catholic, no less!)funding her ‘work.’


36 posted on 08/07/2014 11:25:03 AM PDT by EDINVA
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