Thorny debate on abortion

At Issue: The continuing thorny debate of pro-life vs. pro-choice in these isles.

Our View: Must proactively focus on educational programs about sex for our young people.

The NMI was once an ultra-conservative community where discussion of sex is but taboo. For decades, we have been in self-denial about questions on sex from our children. We have failed to face it squarely in order to nurture a mature and positive attitude on a very difficult issue.

In the process, there emerged a casual attitude that focuses on the “pleasures” of sex among young people followed a by an increase in teenage pregnancy.

It is an issue that we no longer can harbor in self-denial. All schools must address and resolve instructions on sex that focuses on nurturing understanding of its very purpose.
Like diabetics, we must concentrate not on what we can’t eat, buy what we can eat! It’s a new healthy attitude to dealing with a long term illness.

Time Magazine dedicated a whole issue on how much do young kids know about sex. It’s appalling what with a loose attitude on television programs that are casual at best, raw materials at worse. And it’s left at this stage in the name of “freedom of expression”.
Is it or is not? It’s really up to any decent community to define what its young people watch on the tubes.

It is a thorny issue in that there’s the religious viewpoint that occasionally runs contrary to legal and medical questions. That it is a difficult issue where most ordinary citizens aren’t conversant with specific questions or conflict of viewpoints is more the reason to encourage deliberative discussions among our people.

In recent years, we have encouraged young people to use condoms to avoid contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). From a health standpoint, such encouragement may be good, but isn’t this approach an affirmation that casual sex is acceptable for as long as people exercise prevention of STDs? We seem somewhat out of focus, aren’t we? Or is this approach stuck in seemingly conflicting health vs. moral questions?

The point is: We have treated this issue with a casual attitude often veering from a positive resolution about vital information on sex so that our children understand what it’s all about–that it is a serious matter that require a sense of responsibility. To continue exercising self-denial in providing straight answers to taboo questions from our children is to perpetuate skirting our responsibilities in forging a sense of understanding and responsibility on a matter that is best resolved by facing the music squarely however the discordant notes and its complexity. It’s often a situational issue that definitely requires honest answers. Si Yuus Maase`!