Junior high bathroom birth leads to capital murder charge
Why do so many of these tragic dead baby stories happen in Texas? Must have something to do with the state's abstinence-only policy. What bothers me most about it is that this does not have to happen.
What if, instead of making pregnancy out to be the most horrible thing that can happen to a girl, someone had told this girl her options? What if, instead of telling her sex is wrong, someone had told her how to have sex responsibly?
Teaching teenagers that they're too young and irresponsible to handle birth control and pregnancy creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. How can they use birth control if they've been taught that it's useless? How can they deal with pregnancy if all they've been taught is that it's too awful to deal with?
Why not teach kids how to use birth control, how to know if they're pregnant, and what to do about it? Because it might encourage some of them to have sex?
Isn't it more important to stop girls from giving birth in toilets and winding up in prison?!
Where the fuck are our priorities, when chastity is more important than saving lives?
1 comments:
If society were more matriarchal then I feel this girl would of not experienced as much shame and guilt. Ultimately she would have tons of options and choices. She would of been supported, cared for and loved by family, friends and her community. Again this is proof that patriarchy is at work.
It is interesting she is being charged with capital murder. What if the lack of support from the community owned up to its behavior or the society that perpetuated this shame and guilt?
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