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Re: Parental-Notice Law Ruled Unconstitutional From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu) Mon Apr 29 13:31:38 2002 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Parental-Notice Law Ruled Unconstitutional" Previous message: Steve & Eryl Raymond: "Re: Incisional Hernia" In reply to: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Parental-Notice Law Ruled Unconstitutional" Next in thread: art fougner, md: "Re: Parental-Notice Law Ruled Unconstitutional" Reply: art fougner, md: "Re: Parental-Notice Law Ruled Unconstitutional" You've got it wrong, Joanne. It's not that we don't or won't or can't talk about sex. We talk about it all the time. Good Lord, we plaster it on our billboards and our magazine racks, in our movie theaters and on our television screens. We give our children the message daily that all adults and most teens are having sex every chance they get with anyone they meet, even if we only met them during a ten-minute "speed-date" or for a couple of dates in front of the network cameras. What we DON'T seem to be able to talk about is the adverse physical and emotional consequences of sexual promiscuity. These kids just don't think I am talking about them when I tell them pregnancy is not the worst thing they can get from having sex. How about having a big HPV cauliflower sprout on your perineum, or cervical cancer? They don't show that side of it on "Friends" or "Sex in the City". I wish they did, but can you imagine Jennifer Anniston or Callista Flockhart going for a LEEP or even a pap smear? (Actually, since I don't watch those shows, I could be wrong and maybe they have, but somehow I doubt it.) Boom! Down off the soapbox. -- Anna Meenan, MD, FAAFP At Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Joanne Bulley, MD wrote: > >There's no regulation - it is our CULTURE - my experience of 20 years in >medical practice - is that most Americans are not very willing to face >their sexuality - and thus - we have the highest unintended pregnancy >rate of the European - North American countries. This is true across >ALL decades - not just the teenagers. There is this cultural thing here >that sexuality is not talked about "it just happens". > >The end result is unintended pregnancies - which either end up with >abortions or children that are (most often) loved but which have single >moms or marriages that were entered quickly - and STD's - and all the >fall out affecting all of us as a result. > >Joanne > >At Sun, 28 Apr 2002, DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote: >> >>In a message dated 4/28/02 11:00:58, islesannie@yahoo.com writes: >> >><< most adults can't talk about it in the USA >> >> >>Why not? Is that some regulation somewhere? I haven't heard of that one... >> >>Joe P. > >-- >Joanne Bulley, MD >Keene, NH, USA > >~*~ let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me ~*~ > Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Parental-Notice Law Ruled Unconstitutional" Previous message: Steve & Eryl Raymond: "Re: Incisional Hernia" In reply to: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Parental-Notice Law Ruled Unconstitutional" Next in thread: art fougner, md: "Re: Parental-Notice Law Ruled Unconstitutional" Reply: art fougner, md: "Re: Parental-Notice Law Ruled Unconstitutional"

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