Thursday, March 8, 2012

"Texas Will No Longer Take Sex Lying Down"

While searching for something good to write about, I encounter this blog "Texas Will No Longer Take Sex Lying Down" by, Eileen Smith. In her blog she talks about the current debate of banning family planning in Texas' schools and religious-affiliated hospitals. On her blog she uses a lot of sarcasm: "Thank God. This will dissuade the teachers from having protected sex with their students. Now they’ll just have unprotected sex with their students..." This makes her point of view more obvious, which is being against the lawsuit against the government trying to mandate birth control pills in school and religious-affiliated hospitals. She uses actual statements made from Texas attorney Greg Abbot, who is the attorney representing Texas. She does not use actual articles where all the information comes from, but she does gives her opinion on how she is against it. Her blog was directed to all the public but specially those who are directed affected by it, as parents and religious people. Smith's opinion seems to be derived from articles read about the current debate, but her evidence is weak.

I do agree with her, that having birth control pills in schools doesn't necessarily means that it would be like allowing school students to have sex, but instead it gives them at least protection. Banning birth control pills does not solve the issue of school students having sex, they would be prohibiting something that actually solves more problems than it creates. Smith did a good job on her blog, but she should have provided more evidence and information on the current debate.

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