CDC: 25% Of All GIRLS Aged 14-19 Have STD

A little reading music: “When I Grow Up” by Garbage…

“When I grow up” isn’t something a significant number of girls in the United States can talk in terms of for long.  Again we find they are growing up too quickly, and lately the CDC reports a very tragic coming of age is worse and more common then many would have ever guessed.
CDC: 25% Of All GIRLS Aged 14-19 Have STD
Jim Brown – OneNewsNow – 3/11/2008 1:00:00 PM

A newly released study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that at least one in four teenage girls nationwide has a sexually transmitted disease.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study indicates that more than 3 million teen girls aged 14- to 19-years-old have an STD — the Human Papilloma Virus being the most common infection. The study found the highest prevalence rate was among black girls – nearly half the blacks studied had at least one STD, compared with 20 percent of white and Mexican-American teens. Among sexually active teens, the rate was 40 percent.

Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America(CWA), says bad public policy is to blame for the STD epidemic. “The funding of graphic sex-ed that encourages kids to be sexually active is a serious problem,” She maintains. “We also have the FDA’s decision to allow the morning after pill to be available without a prescription.”

Wright says that decision is keeping many women from getting regular screening for STDs. “…women are not going to their doctor’s to get screened for sexually transmitted diseases,” she clarifies. “Instead they’re able to go to a local pharmacy and pick up a drug that is actually not that effective – even at preventing pregnancy.”

The CWA spokeswoman says the CDC study shows there is also a need to reach out to the African-American community “with good public health policies to insure that they are being given full information as to the risks of indiscriminate sexual activity, and the help that is available incase they find themselves with the consequences that come from indiscriminate sexual activity.”

Wright says the government should stop funding sex-ed programs that encourage teen sexual activity and the FDA ought to require that the morning-after pill only be obtained after a medical exam “for the woman’s own good.”

The results of the STD study were released at a CDC conference in Chicago that – according to pro-family groups – promotes a negative view of abstinence-only education.

Folks this just ain’t good. And for as long as we have been told that the Catholic Church is foolish and unhealthy in its theology of sexuality and that more education and more condoms will make us all happy well-balanced libertines… This simply is not proving to be the case.

What do the alternatives continue to demonstrate? All the condoms in all the world…

 Saint Joseph, most chaste spouse of the Virgin, pray for us.

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2 Responses to “CDC: 25% Of All GIRLS Aged 14-19 Have STD”

  1. More Condoms = More Better? « Per Christum Says:
    March 16, 2008 at 8:17 pm | Reply

    [...] BUT (big “but” here) all the titanium condoms in all the world aren’t going to do a good deal to change the reality on the ground just reported by the CDC – that ONE in FOUR teenage girls has an STD…  [...]

  2. More Condoms = More Better? « The Black Cordelias Says:
    April 2, 2008 at 5:09 pm | Reply

    [...] BUT (big “but” here) all the titanium condoms in all the world aren’t going to do a good deal to change the reality on the ground just reported by the CDC – that ONE in FOUR teenage girls has an STD… [...]

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