Planned Parenthood & Scarleteen have the FACTS
09:57, 16 May 2009
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It's the weekend. Time for a personal blog!:
I love Planned Parenthood. I love the Planned Parenthood web site, particularly the pages that offer dispassionate, fact-based information about birth control and the morning-after pill, the questions and answers with Vanessa Cullins, MD, MPH, MBA, a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist. It's a web site filled with detailed, excellent information to help people, including teens, make responsible, informed decisions about their sexual activities, including abstinence (yes, it's true!). Even if you think you know everything there is to know about sex, birth control, reproduction, and/or Planned Parenthood, have a look at the web site. You might be surprised! It's also a great site to encourage your teens to visit, so they know how much responsibility comes with engaging in sex (and, therefore, that they may not be ready for it).
In addition, another excellent web site, specifically for teens but probably helpful to adults as well, is Scarleteen, a site created and managed by volunteers working to furnish teens that with detailed facts about sex, pregnancy prevention and pregnancy. There's nothing titillating at all about the information; I think most young teens, after reading the site, would realize they are NOT ready for sex. Scarleteen treats sex very seriously, not as recreation or something that "just happens." Scarleteen and its content have been lauded by UNICEF, Planned Parenthood, The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, Family Health International, the International Association for Adolescent Health, The Boston Women's Health Collective and more.
Information is power. Information gives a person control over his or her life. Information is good. No -- information is GREAT.
