Bay Area Communities for Health Education

I recently taught my 8 year old daughter the proper way to inject a needle into her veins as a precaution against getting HIV by sharing a heroin needle. Also had to teach her how to clean a used needle. We should focus on things like this as well. I mean, a bunch of kids are going to get AIDS if we don't tell them that heroin is ok, but stress that using a clean needle is the best way....

Unlike heroin use, human sexuality is normal and healthy behaviour. Our children deserve accurate information about how to protect thier health. Responsible programs are comprehensive ones that we know reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancies, HIV/AIDS and the transmission of STD's.

For a more appropriate analogy I will choose another potentially dangerous activity that, unlike heroine use, we need to prepare our kids for..driving....

We teach them how to drive long before we give them their licence. We also tell them that seatbelts reduce the risk of injury and death.

My questions to you on this are does teaching them to drive encourage them to drive illegally? And, would you withhold warnings to wear seatbelts because they aren't 100% effective in preventing injury or death?

Your heroine analogy is as irresponsible as Abstinence Only programs.

Your fear of abstinence based education is understandable. You want to continue the same sex ed curicullum (comprehensive sex ed) that has continued to hurt our chldren because it doesn't tell our kids the whole truth. I see the heartache from STD's. I see the heartache from lowered self eseteem from multiple sex partners. Het, its only sex. Why not hook up at a party. Who is gettig hurt anyway if it is mutaul? No, we don't tell our youth the truth then we set them up for failure. Your driving analogy is silly. When you teach your child to drive, you tell them everything about driving. Why do so many comprehensive sex ed programs only treat sex as a physical act. So many programs suppress the truth because they really don't want the best for teens or believe in it. They promote their own agenda.

Your ability to debate this issue is about as developed as your typing skills.

But I'll give you some credit here. You are right about me being afraid of something, however, it's not the abstinence message. It's the fear I have for the patients in your care.

Imagine you writing a prescription. Now that is truly frightening.