by SB Sarah • Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at 07:02 AM
- It is news around the world - a top story - that Jamie Lynn Spears, Britney’s 16 year-old sister, is pregnant.
- Comments following that story like cars on a really long ass train are words like “white trash,” “trailer,” “stupid,” “idiot,” “low class,” and “what the fuck?”
- Because place of birth, intellect, present domicile and access to fame and attention definitely contribute to increased rates of teen pregnancy. And only poor people find themselves with unplanned pregnancies.
- Really, is it a surprise that, given the state of the American political attitude toward women’s health issues, birth control, condom availability for teenagers, and sexual education among young people, that a 16 year old got pregnant?
- Obviously, money and some external standard of behavior and style are the real defense against unwanted, unplanned pregnancy.
- Reforming our collective attitude towards sex and birth control, and lobbying to make birth control options and sexual education available to young people in the US, that’s not the answer at all. No, no, no. Can’t have young people having access to affordable birth control. Or information about sexual reproduction.
- Imagine the stink if she had elected to have an abortion and THAT story got out. Poor kid.
- It’s much more productive to roll eyes, point and sneer, laugh and make jokes about some 16-year-old sister of a deeply troubled and self-destructive famous person because she got pregnant unintentionally.
- Yeah, that makes sense.
- I’m going back to my news fast, (which won’t do me much good because this story is freaking everywhere) because I can think of ten or eleven better things to do with my time than make fun of a 16 year old who is in a really tough position, AND has to deal with being a top story around the world on top of her unplanned pregnancy.
- Can you imagine? Most teenagers who find themselves with an unplanned pregnancy deal with having friends, family, and strangers talking about them. Spears knows that people around the world are talking about her. Holy shit.
- Number one on my list of better things to do: a donation to PlannedParenthood.
- Hey, cool! Between now and 31 December 2007, all gifts are matched up to $250,000. (Please note: I’m feeling profoundly squidgy by passing that info on, like I’m telling you what to do with your money. I’m not.)
- Take that, Bill Napoli and anyone who stands in the way of open dialogue with young people in the US about sexuality, reproduction, birth control, abortion, and women’s and men’s sexual health issues.
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