Granny, what did you do?

Isn't it amazing the money that Planned Parenthood gets to do "research" that manipulates people into thinking that family planning clinics are the most needed and relevant agencies on the planet? The latest piece of ridiculousness is meant to convince us that everyone does have premarital sex, even granny and gramps. What it doesn't delineate is whether this was a free choice, if this was a one time event or a pattern of behavior, or with whom, such as a hookup, a prostitute, or a fiance. But in this study, practically every American (95%) has sex before they hit their 45th birthday and a marriage usually gets thrown in there someplace.

Granny and Gramps were most definitely affected by their generation's sexual revolution, just as they were the Vietnam War, the Civil and Women's Rights Movement, "Flower Power", folk songs in coffee houses, and the assasinations of the sixties. They were also the first generation with a birth control drug.

There is little doubt that those in their early 60's or late 50's currently had a sexual choice their parents would have never considered. But their decision to have sex was rarely made as a teenager because the social cost would have been too great. As years passed, more of them bought into the free love mantra; you no longer lost friends, family, position. So what!

The real tragedy is Granny's generation, while outwardly doing "the right stuff"--attending Church, participating in the PTA, cheering their kids' sports, carpooling--gave up their moral core. To the point, Bishop Fulton Sheen once said "If you don't behave as you believe, you will end up believing as you behave." Because they had few consequences to shake their new "moral
beliefs", they raised their children with little mention of sexual morality. They provided no rudder whereas their parents had at least used fear. It is their children now suffering the full brunt of a sexual revolution their parents did nothing to stop.

The 50 and 60 year olds can't imagine why their children's marriages last less than a year when they cohabitated for years prior to the wedding. They don't even read all the articles about STDs because that couldn't happen to their children. AIDS is a problem in Africa; America will never be threatened...except for those immoral "gay people". They bemoan why kids today only have 1-2 kids not realizing many are lucky to have even that many due to the damage they've done to their reproductive systems through sex with multiple partners.

Granny, what did you do? You created a mess. Wake up and smell the Starbucks! By following in your footsteps, your grandchildren will not survive unless doctors find an AIDS vaccine. But that might save their lives, it won't give them happiness. Look at what they're doing to themselves--cutting, eating disorders, drugs, depression, suicide, shootings--they're not happy now! Three times as many of them are having sex as teens than your generation did. They can't handle it--their bodies, brains and hearts aren't made to handle it.

So if you want to let people use this survey to push more sexual crap on your kids and grandkids, start chopping off the branches on your family tree. This "protection" mantra is saving no one. How blind can you be?

Is He Nuts?

The Bush administration has appointed Dr. Eric Keroack, an obstetrician-gynecologist, as the new Chief of Family Planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services. That means, this former medical director for a large non-profit that supports abstinence, adoption, and compassionate support for pregnant women and girls in crisis will administer the $283 million in family-planning grants that have gone to contraception clinics serving low-income people.

Family planning advocates are screaming "foul" as they themselves are already trying to eliminate federal abstinence, marriage initiative and faith-based funding.

Is President Bush "dramatically out of step with the nation's priorities" as the president of Planned Parenthood charges? Is he "not going to compromise on his principles" as a White House spokesperson claims? Or is he "sly as a fox" making a simple move that will force an indepth look at a 36 year family planning program that has enjoyed limited oversight?

I think the administration is determined to force discussion, debate and study to resolve trends that are detrimental to our country. Bush is remaining consistent with his clearly promoted stance on teen sexual activity, marriage and family, and HIV/AIDS.

I can only hope that Dr. Keroack is up to the challenge of acting under a microscope in a hostile environment. His past co-workers hint that birth control is not an issue for him; the issue might be using it for enabling unwed sex instead of planning a family. One man is not going to derail funding but this program needs to meet the same standards as abstinence funding to level the "playing field" and determine the true strengths and weaknesses of each.

Talking together shouldn't be a bad thing even if someone has to force it to happen. Hopefully, Dr. Keroack can articulate that doubling his department's funding, as advocated by family planning advocates, is an extremely expensive way to stop pregnancies if women continue the sex that got them pregnant in the first place--1/3 of fertile, sexually active women get pregnant--the ratio stays the same whether they are contracepting or not. Hormonal contraceptives are still connected to female cancers so wary women are looking for alternatives. The government should as well.

Condomism

Jennifer Roback Morse, author of Smart Sex: Finding Life-Long Love in a Hook-Up World, succinctly puts the ideology surrounding advocacy of contraception for everything including ending world hunger and saving the environment. She calls these the 4 tenets of "condomism":

1. Every person capable of giving consent is entitled to unlimited sexual activity. That is, if they want it, they can have it; end of discussion.

2. All negative consequences of sexual activity can be controlled by contraceptives and condoms.

3. No one has to give birth to a baby. Abortion is an absolute entitlement--no reason needed, a simple procedure available any time at all.

4. If a condom or a contraceptive can't prevent it, its not worth talking about. It is a non-issue; doesn't happen. Therefore, there isn't personal or societal fallout from unwed sexual behavior, except for babies.

There is so much evidence to the contrary and yet condomists ignore it while spewing more and more ridiculous commentary. The supreme idiocy is that people that should know better are buying it!

UNPROTECTED

This is a must read! Dr. Miriam Grossman, MD, UCLA Counseling Center, is the "Anonymous" author of Unprotected. She feared professional reprisals for her frank portrayal of her professional colleagues advancing a radical social agenda at the expense of the health and well-being of college coeds. Her picture of the fallout of sexual activity on campus is chilling.

The book is small and cheap--give it to a college student you care about and her parents. Dr. Grossman hopes this book will cause fury and debate of an issue being well hidden.