Re: Parental-Notice Law Ruled Unconstitutional
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Mon Apr 29 14:17:38 2002
heck at least on the late great Melrose Place - the Heather Locklear
character had an ectopic pregnancy.
art
At Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Anna Meenan, MD wrote:
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>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:
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>>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:
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>>>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 ~*~
>>
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art fougner, md
ich bin ein New Yorker
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