Abortion not an Option in Popular Culture

[arikara]

21. I just did a project on teen pregnancy

for a class I was taking. My project is in Canada however a lot of the information between our 2 countries is intertwined. Especially the information a girl would find if she was looking on the internet. Depending on where she looks, it is not clear that there are 3 options for every pregnancy.

I noticed that the anti-choicers are getting very very good at disseminating their information. When you search on teen pregnancy, there are sites high in the rankings that appear to show all options, a good example is one called standupgirl.com. Its an attractive flashy modern looking site that gives only anti-choice views through articles and testimonials saying how easy it is to keep the baby, finish school and go to college and how devastated girls are after being forced to have an abortion. They never come right out and say that they are anti-choice. They also even sell an e book. That kind of insidious information, plus the fact that women can't even get abortions in some areas has really rolled back the clock for women in the US. Its happening in Canada too, but to a lesser extent. However, our conservative government would love nothing more than to take away women's right to choose here as well.

The US has by far the highest number of teen pregnancy of any of the developed countries and it is the country that has sunk billions of dollars into promoting “abstinence only” programs. Obviously they don’t work. The Nordic countries where teen sexual activity is viewed as inevitable and not moral have the lowest rates of teen pregnancies, and lowest STI’s as well.