It’s a tricky business coming up with something to write. It seems whenever I step away from a keyboard, my brain fills up with stories to type out, thoughts to enter, anecdotes that I want to remember. And then I get some free time, sit down at a computer, open up WordPress, and then all of it hits a blank. Brain = dead.

The only thing I can come up with, via help of Yahoo’s Buzz section, is to mention how ironic it is that Governor Palin still thinks that Abstinence Only Sex Education is effective.

After young people make the decision to have sex, they have no education to fall back on. No information about birth control alternatives, resources to turn to for help and information, or anything. Just crowds of fanatics holding up signs protesting that an embryo is a person and that any chance at life, even a life with a person who may or may not even want you, is something that must be guaranteed.

That is one of the reasons that I support Planned Parenthood as an organization. For being there to give out hand outs on all types of different birth controls, to educate those who have been failed by their Sex Ed classes, to do health screens, and to help others get in contact with those who might help them get even more information that they require.

Not all the information they dish out is about aborting the fetus either. When I went there and discovered that I was busy building a baby, they helped me to find resources that would help take care of medical expenses, told me of additional programs available to help both mother and child, and emphasized that whatever decision I chose, there would be someone to help me along the way. Because of this organization, I think that we’ve done as well as we have with Jasbaz. Granted, we are no longer on any sort of state funding like we were for a short time period, but it was the care, the stories, the endless brochures of advice about baby care, nutrition, different daycare guidelines when selecting a center… just the great mass of information which I gobbled right up and so desperately needed.

And really, I think that sex education should have more of that available. I mean, I took several years of the class in school and yet I don’t think that very much of it was actually beneficial. There should be a bit more of an emphasis on the actual “what to do after having sex” situation. I mean, you color in diagrams of little spermies meeting up with ovaries in class, but you don’t talk about what to do when the baby comes?

You expect a crying baby doll with a “sensitive” head to be amble knowledge on what comes after? And you WONDER why this country is going to hell in a handbasket? You wonder why kids live out on the streets, are babysat by videogames, and turn to abusive behavior?

Is this some sort of game where you up in the political offices decide that since your religion practices abstinence until marriage, that you can expect that to be enough for the rest of the country? I mean, why even have Sex Ed at all if all we are going to do is look at diagrams of STDs and mammary glands while immature people doodle penis’s on the desks.

Young people are largely ignorant on all this sort of thing. And that is something that needs to be addressed in our school system if not by the parents. Especially if we’re already having a class dedicated to Sex. Just seems foolish not to.