You Have The Right To Be Brainwashed

Sarah Flicker, a York University professor, claims that "access to sexual-health education is a basic human right". But judging from her arguments against Alberta's bill 44, (which enshrined parents' right to withdraw their children from classes on so called "sexual orientation", sexuality or religion,) she apparently believes that this "right" is in fact a duty.

"It's clear that one-size-fits-all prevention strategies don't work; we need to be tailoring our health-promotion and prevention strategies to meet the needs of diverse young people," she said.

"We need to be addressing issues of racism, of sexism, of homophobia, in our curriculum, and talking about how these harmful messages can often impede our ability to make really good choices."

Yep. That's what it's all about. It starts with the declared goal of providing children with information about health, but then it inevitably comes to indoctrination. What does racism have to do with sexual health? Then we have "addressing homophobia" - e.g. telling children that any objection to a sexually deviant behavior is a hate crime. And bashing those old-timers whose "harmful messages" about abstinence impede one's ability to make "really good choices". Well, let's take a look at how good those choices really are:

“Syphilis, on the verge of being eliminated in the United States about 10 years ago, also has been increasing lately. About 13,500 cases of the most contagious form of the disease were reported in 2008, up from about 11,500 the year before,” adds the CP story. “Unlike chlamydia, health officials think syphilis cases actually are increasing. Syphilis rates are up among both gay men and heterosexuals, said Douglas, director of the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention.” (A CDC spokesman said they believe higher rates of chlamydia are due to better screening.) Gonorrhea cases have apparently dropped.

“Girls, ages 15 through 19, had the largest reported number of chlamydia and gonorrhea cases, accounting for more than one in four of those cases. But they’re often screened more than other people, since 1993 federal recommendations that emphasize testing for sexually active women age 25 and under. The government estimates there are roughly 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted disease annually. Experts say the most common is HPV, human papillomavirus, which can cause genital warts, cervical cancer and other cancers,” reported CP. Oh, and, by the way, “Syphilis can kill if untreated.”

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Anyone is still eager to send his children to a class where they'll be taught that they can do whatever they want; satisfy every desire they might have and face no consequences as long as they follow some safety instructions? S. Flicker is upset that there's a province in Canada where parents are allowed to exempt their children from classes that teach the false notion of "safe sex". But if there is a reason to be upset - it's that Alberta is the only province where such protection is enshrined in law.