FOR ALL CITIZENS INTERESTED IN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND SOCIETIES:
Have the courage to read the following letter I send to politicians and researchers like you who do NOT understand the devastation caused by causal sex--even using condoms/birth control--READ and HAVE THE COURAGE TO RESPOND:
I am sending you MUCH of the research -most from our own CDC and the U.S. Census Bureau, and as an abstinence educator for the last 10 years, was honored to write a chapter in a social ethics text (summary article enclosed) which details the HIGH disparities in social ills, particularly devastating blacks and other minorities, including rates of poverty, rates of STD’s, abortion rates, as well as the devastation to youth in fatherless homes-with increased rates of criminal behavior, drug and alcohol abuse, school drop out rates, and increasing pre-term labor and infant mortality rates, as well as many other devastating statistics like emotional rates of depression and suicide rates. I hope you agree that directing ALL American youth to the HIGH expectation of abstinence education is the social IDEAL that would greatly reduce all of these ills.--We have been teaching ALL youth to abstain from drugs, alcohol, and smoking, because they harm our youth, but especially it is time NOW to direct ALL American youth to abstain from sexual activity as there are many more negative consequences related to that ONE behavioral choice!
If you are NOT aware, ALL of these social ills are directly linked to people choosing to engage in pre-marital sex, and, according to your own CDC surveillance reports, black youth have MUCH higher rates of engaging in sex with more partners and at younger ages. So--why isn't the CDC, whose statistics showed a great reductions in black youth engaging in sex from 1991-2005- a drop from 81% in 1991 down to 67% in 2005, and for ALL High School students the drop was from 54 % in 1991 to 47%--again the most significant drops were for black youth, DEMANDING more money to be targeted to abstinence programs which direct youth to exercise self control and not be exposed to all of the negative consequences? . THe Heritage Foundation credits abstinence education as the most effective contributing factor to these great reductions. NOW-Planned Parenthood and SIECUS--condom advocate groups-- want to end funding for this healthy, responsible directive, and I think groups like yours with the detailed data on health disparities need to ask for a bi-partisan panel to look at how successful abstinence funding has been since 1996!
I believe the CDC should be using a medical cessation model like the one we use in our women's care clinic for all sexually active youth, similar to the 5 A's smoking cessation model-why wouldn't the CDC mandate that healthy directive in ALL health Departments, and state and federally-funded family planning clinics, and begin a healthy behavioral model to reduce these sad statistics? THe Medical Cessation Model was started at the Medical Institute for Sexual Health http://medinstitute.org -you REALLY need to join this highly successful team who TRULY care about our youth!
The condom advocates who want ALL of the sex-ed funding purposely misled with this Mathmatica study, because it about the MONEY--not the health of American youth, the new administration has proposed cutting the funding for abstinence on the basis of the misleading data. PLEASE read the information carefully, and I would be honored to discuss in detail how abstinence directives should be a HIGH priority for ALL concerned about these ills. Although we have numbers for white and Hispanic youth, which are also very troubling, the sad numbers reflect that black youth are particularly negatively affected. Blacks account for 12-13% of the U.S. population--yet they have higher numbers as a percentage of their race in all of the following social ills: POVERTY-The #1 group trapped in poverty are single female -headedhouseholds--NO marriage--sadly, blacks have a 70% out--of-wedlock birth rate--so more will be trapped in poverty. Choosing to engage in sex before marriage is the contributing factor! Time Magazine recently had the statistic that we spend $500 billion on poverty-related programs. STD's --Blacks have higher numbers of ALL STD's -not just HIV/AIDS--which insome areas they account for 50% of the new cases--but also for Herpes,Chlamydia, Gonorrhea..and others,.-we know that STD’s are directly related to sexual choices-very few to rape/incest! One estimate noted that we spend $20 billion on screening/treatment. CRIME--We know that black youth engage in higher rates of criminal behavior and onmore black victims--we also know that 70% of the men in prison came fromhomes with NO fathers--NO marriage--thus NO positive role model--peoplemaking sexual choices, but then abandon their responsibility! How does one begin to factor the costs of an unproductive life spent behind bars, along with the estimated $40,000/year per inmate for upkeep in prison? ABORTION--We know that since 1973-Roe v. Wade that 45 million unborn babieshave been KILLED in legal abortion--BUT 1/3rd of those-15 million-- wereblack and Planned Parenthood-et.al. sets up more inner city abortion clinicstargeting blacks-Black Americans for Life calls it genocide-! Statistics show that 85% of abortions are choices made by unmarried women.
If any of you claim that abortion should remain legal--PLEASE go to www.abortionno.org and view the IMMORAL reality--how can any sane person support this atrocity?
My research from the CDC states that black youth engage in sex at younger ages and with more partners than their white and Hispanic peers--so we will see more of ALL of these devastating numbers!
Now for the solution--conservatives have funded and want to expand abstinence until MARRIAGE funding so that ALL youth will understand the consequences of that behavior -teach them how to exercise self-control to avoid STD's, and so that they will not end up in poverty as a single mom or have to choose to KILL her baby in abortion. Also, we would like to teach young men that if they engage in these sexual choices, they have an obligation to commit to the mom in MARRIAGE-that it is healthy for the child to grow up with a father and a mother as we have much data on the increased rates of criminal behaviors, school drop out rates, drug and alcohol abuse from youth growing up fatherless. I have a tape of some politicians from C-Span who say it is "unrealistic" to teach some youth abstinence--isn't that soft bigotry of LOW expectation--that blacks cannotbe taught self-control like their white peers? I believe that it is our obligation to teachthem the HIGH standard of abstinence, and we have studies which state blackyouth do abstain after this healthy, responsible, moral directive of abstinenceeducation-! So--I hope we will begin to challenge those who say they want less poverty, less crime, less STD's, less abortion -to join with conservatives and demand abstinence education for ALL youth--so that we can greatly reduce these sad statistics-especially for blacks! I also want to include the devastation from emotional effects of pre-marital sex likeincreased rates of depression and suicide, loss of self-esteem and manyother emotional negative effects that we spend millions on counseling! Two new books, "Unprotected" by Dr. Miriam Grossman and "Hooked" by Dr. McIlhaney discuss the hormonal influence with sexual choices, and how many youth do not understand why they feel so depressed after being used/dumped after casual sex.
I PRAY that you will consider looking at the UNBELIEVABLE individual and societal costs discussed, and join those who want to make a priority to fund the healthy directive that could greatly reduce all of the aforementioned social ills.
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We have MUCH data to support the benefits of mutual monogamous MARRAIGE-- defined by EVERY major religion as the sacred union of 1 man and 1 woman. The new data on the hormonal bonding from chemicals like oxytocin in the woman, and vasopressin and testosterone in the male, which increase with sexual activity and are designed for 2 purposes-bonding AND procreation, sadly we have seen the emotionally devastated women/men who have engaged in uncommitted casual sex !
I hope you will have the courage to respond and look at the detailed data which I can send you, which shows the individual and societal devastation, and join those like the Medical Institute in transforming the CDC in directing youth to the healthy, responsible directive.
GOD BLESS-US-EVERYONE! Ret. Major Laura Merriotta PROUD abstinence educator 814 835-0249 5235 Wolf Rd. Erie, Pa. 16505
Here's another sad story:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/06/29/abortions-double-premature-tot-risk-115875-21480051/
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