Beware the new language!!!

As reported in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this week, the public school administration has changed course for its sex education efforts. According to Judy Gerrity, "the focus for us is reducing live births to teens" as the objective of their revised program that will start in grade four.

That is not a focus to reduce teen sexual activity, the first priority of the state health plan and state law that supports teaching abstinence. That is not the same as reducing teen pregnancy that had been the rationale for the contraception/condom education that the district mandated. This new statement opens the door for the unthinkable options as policy and programs fail--the abortion pill, abortion and sterilzation. Is this the idea we want planted in the minds of girls as young as fourth grade? How do you teach children that babies are disposable yet are the hope of our future simultaneously?