Kate Walsh: Abstinence-Only "Not Working"

Cites One-In-Four Teen Girl STDs Rate In U.S. As Proof Fed-Sponsored Sex Ed Needs Broadening

(CBS)  Actress Kate Walsh is pushing for federal sex education programs to teach strategies beyond abstinence-only.

Walsh, who played a doctor on "Grey's Anatomy" and stars in its spin-off, "Private Practice," is a member of the board of advocates of Planned Parenthood, and went to Capitol Hill Thursday to take part in a congressional briefing on sex education.

She's been lobbying for sex ed to include birth control and the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.

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Photos: Meet Kate Walsh

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On The Early Show Friday, Walsh told co-anchor Julie Chen, "Abstinence-only is not working. It's a $1.5 billion program over the last ten years that has, quite frankly, failed. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) reported that one-in-four teenage girls (in the US) between the ages of 14 and 19 are infected with STIs (sexually transmitted infections), and that, to me, is appalling and shameful. And in the age of information, these women are just not getting adequate information."

Walsh says there's urgent need for a change in the way sex ed funds are appropriated: "In addition to abstinence, which is fine, there just needs to be a comprehensive sex education program, and we can't be relying on, you know, private foundations or parents or, you know, teens' peers to be educating each other. We really do need government help on this.

"It's a shame to me that we spend money on educating our kids on history, math, science, English literature, and we can't educate them sexually. And it's proof in these statistics. It's just shameful to me that, in our country, that these young women are being infected because they honestly just don't have the information.

"Abstinence is one aspect of sex education," Walsh continued, "but it is not the complete aspect. And to expect, I think, everybody to remain abstinent, it's like asking them not to grow. It's like we don't ask people to not try out for sports. We don't ask people to stop learning. It's just a natural human process, and we need to be educating people. If abstinence-only did work, we wouldn't be seeing these kinds of statistics. We wouldn't be seeing these young women suffering like this."

[newsterl]

newsterl, I know many people who are not religious and still disagree strongly"

Sorry but I guess I dont see that as being a large number, they may be a minority to the rule, but by and large the religious reich is 100% against abortion at any stage because its in their teachings and book of death.

" By the way, do you have children of your own, and do they live with you.."

I dislike children totally, they are additional mouths for this already overpopulated planet to feed- another car on the road, another person in line and another house being built.
If I was female Id certainly have an abortion w/o question.

" or dont you know how many you have???. or are you yourself a homosexual and this is why you so ferverently argue in favour this way"

I dont have s3x with people, Im a zoophile exclusively and have been for over 35 years, so I know exactly how many children I have out there; ZERO

youtube.com/user/dersheeple

"I was taught at school that we were better than animals, that we had a more advanced brain, etc, has this changed???"

We are the SAME as animals, (mammals at least) we share some 94% or 96% of the same DNA

", do we no longer care about our young, does our own selfishness and desires come before the importance of bringing up happy, well, ajusted children???
Posted by Gaye5"

Gaye- we are OVERPOPULATED to the breaking point in a finite environment, we need to STOP breeding for ten years and let the numbers decline!

[SuzieH212006]

Wow - it''s amazing how most of these comments have nothing to do with the article. I am a firm believer that we need to arm kids with more than just the "don''t do it" idea, that''s the only knowledge we are them with! The right wing government thinks that if we don''t tell kids anything except - *** is bad, wait till you get marrier, which i am pretty sure was an idea they came up with in the 20''s when kids still had respect for authority. But alot of them believe if we arm kids with the knowledge and resources to make informed responsible decisions that we are giving them the green light to go out and fornicate with everyone! This is the most ***-backward thinking i have ever heard of!! It''s bad enough that the government refuses to condone condom use - because of all the religous conservatives, but they are refuse to cover my birth control pills, so according to their thinking and what all of their welfare programs show me is that they would rather have me pop out 15 kids before i am 30, sit and collect my welfare checks, but i am going to hell if i use a condom!!! Gosh *** hypocrisy!!!

[gaye5]

newsterl, just because someone doesnt believe in abortion, homosexuality doesnt mean that they are religious, I object to that. I know many people who are not religious and still disagree strongly with the left wing extreemist views on these things..

stop denegrating those who have different views. By the way, do you have children of your own, and do they live with you, or dont you know how many you have???. or are you yourself a homosexual and this is why you so ferverently argue in favour this way..
I was taught at school that we were better than animals, that we had a more advanced brain, etc, has this changed??? are we no longer any better than animals, do we no longer care about our young, does our own selfishness and desires come before the importance of bringing up happy, well, ajusted children???

[gaye5]

Well, I from some of what is being said here it appears that we have no more brains than animal so then I supose that it is ok to lower ones self to the same standards of other species.. passing on disease like it is going out of fashion, causing horror lives for our children, and general tom catting around will do it for most men I supose. I couldnt stand it to think that my husband had been sticking it up someone else stinken rear end or what ever.. I have no intentions of lowering myself to the standards of those animals who do..
There are reasons why we dont have many partners, and one of them is disease, another is that children who are brought up in a loving two blood parent family are more likely to succeed in life and have less problems.. generalizing of course.

[gaye5]

hypnotoad72, well said. If we could make it so as we didnt get pregnant many years ago, and we didnt have the pill etc that they have today, then why cant kids of today.. The answer was a simple no.. but of couse that was unrealistic eh.. and of course there were still the odd 16 year old girls who had to go away to have their babies but the whole town knew who they were and they were counted as tarts..

[newsterl]

The study of animal sexuality (and primate sexuality especially) is a rapidly developing field. It used to be believed that only humans and a handful of species performed sexual acts other than for procreation, and that animals'' sexuality was instinctive and a simple response to the "right" stimulation (sight, scent).

Current understanding is that many species that were formerly believed monogamous have now been proven to be promiscuous or opportunistic in nature; a wide range of species appear both to masturbate and to use objects as tools to help them do so; in many species animals try to give and get sexual stimulation with others where procreation is not the aim; and homosexual behavior has now been observed among 1,500 species and in 500 of those it is well documented.

It might be a treasured value in many human cultures, but monogamy is rare in the animal kingdom at large.

Of the roughly 5,000 species of mammals, only 3 to 5 percent are known to form lifelong pair bonds. This select group includes beavers, otters, wolves, some bats and foxes and a few hoofed animals.

And even the creatures that do pair and mate for life occasionally have flings on the side and some, like the wolf, waste little time finding a new mate if their old one dies or can no longer sexually perform.

Staying faithful can be a struggle for most animals. For one, males are hardwired to spread their genes and females try to seek the best dad for their young.

[newsterl]

"Plus, if we gave more concern about each other, abortion would be a non-issue too. Nobody would want to have one because, both for pre-born and post-born, wed HAVE a better society."
Posted by hypnotoad72

Maybe, but there will always be those who simply do not like or want children, the anti abortion foes should step up to the plate, put their money where their mouths are, not breed, and adopt EVERY fetus themselves.
The religious reich needs to mind their own business and stop trying to mind everyone elses''

[newsterl]

"having the media foist sexuality, without even hinting at protection, monogamy, or"

Loads of porn clips on the web show no protection is ever used, including one I saw with about a dozen men all ejack into a wine glass and a woman drinking it, obviously she was getting a nice HIV cocktail potential along with hepatitus and a whole assortment of stuff.

"Of course, one night stands are an insult against "

I disagree, if they both want it then who are WE to say otherwise?

"Why do people so conveniently divorce? "

Its too easy to GET married in the first place, marriage is all about control and taxation of property, assets, inheritances, minors, estates, real estate and oh yeah- the vitally important license fee the state charges!

"species of animals that DO live monogamous lives."

VERY, VERY few out of the whole which is estimated to be one million;

Most scientists agree, however, that there are about 1 million species of animals.
www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0934288.html

However;
Homosexual behaviour has been observed in 1500 animal species.
www.news-medical.net/?id=2071

I submit that the number of species who have been observed in homosexual acts (1500) is greater than the ''monogamous'' species- one of which I recall being a BIRD, and their brain is about the size of a pea.

[hypnotoad72]

Spanish Flu 1918%u20131920 40 to 100 million deaths

Makes HIV pale by comparison.

Posted by newsterl
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Quite. More proof we need cures for spanish flu... and no free spanish fly to be dispensed... :)

[hypnotoad72]

Oh, the next time someone tells ya "Do not knock it until you have tried it" -- seek out those who tried it. Beware, some might tell you why it deserves to be knocked BEFORE being tried. I mean, we don''t let murderers and rapists get off with the same excuse...

[hypnotoad72]

Okay, let''s look at the past 50 years and see what has worked, what has not, and adjust accordingly. We don''t need to be in the dark on this (or other issues that plague our country).

Abstinence only has not worked.

Telling kids what the parts do and having them take care of a chicken egg for 14 days did not work.

Having the media foist sexuality, without even hinting at protection, monogamy, or anything else, sure as heck is not working! Of course, that sells so it''s going to be excused... :(

Of course, one night stands are an insult against all involved; and if people really are able to separate love and ***, especially unprotected ***, then maybe they are mentally ill.

Why do people so conveniently divorce? Surely marriage is something people should NOT take as lightly as ***? Of course, all those star trek themed-weddings just can''t be wrong...

Now, there are species of animals that DO live monogamous lives. So when we''re told "it''s not natural", tell the morons to take a hike. It IS natural. What we do is our choice.

Plus, if we gave more concern about each other, abortion would be a non-issue too. Nobody would want to have one because, both for pre-born and post-born, we''d HAVE a better society.

But no, "boys will be boys". That bull**** thinking (if you can call it thinking) has got to stop. Either in the bedroom or in the classroom or anywhere else.

[gaye5]

Of course abstinence-only or abstinence plus isnt working, when children are taught things like this below what do these stupid educators expect these kids with unbridled *** hormones to do..
They encourage teens to imagine ways to "eroticize condom use with (their) partner" and assign teens to create a list of ways to be close to a person without having intercourse, including, "body massage, bathing together, masturbation, sensuous feeding, fantasizing, watching erotic movies, reading erotic books and magazines etc, this would do it for even the most controlled person. Then couple this with TV shows of nothing else but ***, teen *** and violence and we have disaster..
The abstinence programs on the other hand have had incrediable success, perhaps this is why there are other reports that say abstinence among the youth has recently been credited with significantly contributing to a decline in teen births. A growing number of studies are also confirming that abstinence programs work.
But then the teaching of Abstinence is totally different to the teaching of abstinence-plus or abstinence-only.

[newsterl]

Spanish Flu 1918 through 1920
40 to 100 million deaths

[newsterl]

The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) reported that one-in-four teenage girls (in the US) between the ages of 14 and 19 are infected with STIs "

The human body is probably the dirtiest thing around, there''s no end of the nasty as well as FATAL diseases you can get from other people just breathing the same air in an airplane, or touching a doorknob, shopping cart or computer keyboard someone else used.
STi''s are probably the least of it

Typically influenza is transmitted from infected people through the air by coughs or sneezes, creating aerosols containing the virus. Influenza can also be transmitted by saliva, nasal secretions, faeces and blood. Infections also occur through contact with these body fluids or with contaminated surfaces. Flu viruses can remain infectious for about one week at human body temperature, over 30 days at 32 0F, and for much longer periods at very low temperatures.

Flu spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics, killing millions of people in pandemic years and hundreds of thousands in non-pandemic years. Three influenza pandemics occurred in the 20th century and killed tens of millions of people, with each of these pandemics being caused by the appearance of a new strain of the virus in humans.

Spanish Flu 1918%u20131920 40 to 100 million deaths

Makes HIV pale by comparison.

[jankebenz]

As Romans 1:22%u201325 says, "Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man%u2014and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things. Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen."

[newsterl]

"Then perhaps your posts would merit a reply
Posted by jerkaboner"

There is absolutely no reply or response that you could ever make to any of my posts that I would want- I consider you and rick nothing less than puppets on a string for the religious reich who come here and other forums to spam for gezus, and it''s no better than that idiot who comes in here every day with multiple new accounts solely to post about his dating sites.

[newsterl]

ewster!

You are exposing your childish and immature intellectuality by resorting to name calling. If you want to advance to a civil adult, then start acting like one. Then perhaps your posts would merit a reply
Posted by jerkaboner

I don''t address religious rightwings or bigots with anything less than they deserve, especially when one of them uses terms like animal rapist, or posts false information about a previous post and calls them a liar per;

"Whos LYING??? Check out your own post below
"I faced death while giving birth",
If your not a female ,what are you?
Can we now trust anything you say?. You are exposed!
Posted by jerkaboner"
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The text you claimed I posted about MYSELF that you said conflicted with previous posts (thereby calling me a LIAR) came copy/pasted from the bottom of the article here and was NOT about me;

http://www.evilbible.com/common_lies.htm

QUOTED PER:
"My father is an atheist and served during..." "...while giving birth.."

Whether I get a reply to my posts or not is of no concern to me, I dont post to garner replies, I post to publish my opinions and viewpoints.

[jankebenz]

newster!

You are exposing your childish and immature intellectuality by resorting to name calling. If you want to advance to a civil adult, then start acting like one. Then perhaps your posts would merit a reply

[newsterl]

"Drive your body like a rental car is your answer? "
Posted by maxify55"

WHy not? it doesnt last forever, 65 to maybe 80 years and then it turns to rotting meat in a casket or ash and smoke in a cremation, by that time it wont make any difference what you did to it, it has a limited life-span anyway like a car does.

[newsterl]

"Because I dont want her to think that Ive given that which I prize the most in the world, my body, has been passed around to every other woman on the planet."

Since s3x doesnt leave any scars or marks, how would she know whether you are a virgin or had s3x with 4,563 other women and men?
Answer: she wont

" my hand, or other appendage,into your bag of cookies. Whos been there before me? Did they wash their hands first? Did they..

Your HAND??.. First, you take a BATH, that washes off any external ''yeccch'' that might be lingering months or years after her last encounter, second- since the body replaces every cell- you and she or he are not the same body you were a year ago. Third, if the dude wore a condom then the only thing left behind was microscopic particles of latex.

"Very important questions, "

Hardly

Oh, Yeah. I want the dirtiest skankiest ho that has ever walked the planet to be the mother of my children.
Posted by maxify55"

YOUR children? hmmm sounds more like she will be an incubator for YOUR children than anything else.
Dont worry, there is no cross-contamination, but when buying a USED woman who was divorced a few times before, better questions to ask is how come she couldnt stay married and how did she make that many mistakes in relationships, and do you REALLY want to chance it with HER being she failed 2-3 times before?
Lastly, can you afford the alimony and child support when you get the inevitable divorce?
Those are the better questions!