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Paper Abstract: The anti-contraception movement seeks to prevent sex education in the public schools. This paper critiques their effort to surpress information about sexuality. Paper Introduction: Against Contraception in Schools While all people have some capacity for reasoning a brief survey of worldhistory makes it clear that man is not a rational animal A glance attoday\'s news confirms it a President who lied his people into anunnecessary war and has virtually bankrupted his country is re-electedbecause he claims to be a Christian and appeals to the irrational core offear that lurks inside of every human being This criticism of President Bush is not gratuitous because the themeof this Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. Because if they are toovigorously challenged, the tenants of all religious dogma begin to unravel,since they are based on the insubstantial foundation of faith, whichblithely by-passes the self-regulating feedback mechanism of criticismwhich has given man what little enlightenment he has achieved. Listen to a Catholic priest weighing in on the debate:"There are those who hypothesize that the acceptance of artificial birthcontrol...is at least partially responsible for the skyrocketing divorcerate, as well as the legalization of abortion" (Bush 2 4). Harassing students in front of our publicschools should be denounced by everyone, regardless of their views onabortion"(Nova, September 16, 2 3). Will Roevs. But the same winnowing process that assures that only the besttechnology survives does not necessarily apply in the realm of culture.Scientific advances have produced reactionary responses from religiousLeaders at least since Galileo was forced to recant his belief that theEarth revolved around the sun. This criticism of President Bush is not gratuitous, because the themeof this paper can only be fairly examined in light of the current veneer ofreligiosity worn the Republican party, and their recent electorial success. The Bush administration has denied funding to UNESCO to disseminatebirth control devices, procedures, and information in the Third World.Estimates put the number of needlessly dead women as the result of botchedillegal abortions in the thousands in countries where the UN had formerlyroutinely provided full family planning services before the Reaganadministration put a stop to it. Quoted in Jones, Jenifer. Small surprise that the currentRepublicans would deny America's teenagers a chance to learn about theirbodies, and how to avoid unwanted pregnancies, for reasons based onspurious religious grounds. Wade, which gave women the right to safe medical procedures andreproductive freedom, be overturned by a right-wing Bush Supreme Court? September 16, 2 3.http://www.agi-usa.org/media/pdf/ 229_clip.pdf.Wagoner, James. Perhaps some day the unimpeded teaching ofcritical thinking skills and the anthroplogy of religion will be requiredin every school on the planet. Those who wish toturn the clock back to the Dark Ages are free to form their own sectarianprivate schools and indoctrinate their children. But don't hold your breath. Intellectual curiosityand critical thinking skills are systematically repressed and penalized,for good reason, from their twisted perspective. The conflict over teaching about sexuality, and more specificallyabout contraception and birth control, is part of the ongoing culturalstruggle between the values of the Enlightenment (the rebirth of ancientnon-Christian knowledge in the Renaissance, as well as the rise ofrationalism, science, and the critical spirit that has formed the modern,secular world) and those of religion. Media Advisory. Ignorance is nobody's ally in the era of AIDS, for God's sake",says Wagoner (2 4). www.ABCNews.com.2/28/ . 2 4Nova, David. The madrasi of Pakistan teach aShiite version of Islam that emphasizes memorisation of the Koran andcomplete obedience to one's Imam. But those who love peopleand do not fear sexuality should roundly denounce this attempt by apolitically powerful group of religious fundamentalists to deny America'schildren all the information possible about their bodies and how to controlthem. Against his misinformation are facts that indicate the opposite.James Wagoner, president of a safe-sex advocacygroup called Advocates for Youth, believes the muchlower rates of births, abortions and sexually transmitted diseases amongadolescents in France and the Netherlands as compared to American teens, isthe result of government support in those countries for sex education inmass media, billboards, and the public schools. The Christian fundamentalist Bush administration, in concert with itsJewish fundamentalist Israeli allies, is provoking a religious war withIslamic fundamentalists in a kind of three-part round-robin Crusade. In the aftermath of the Bush election victory on November 2, 2 4,this issue is sure to be prominent in the culture wars to come. In the last century it has beenincreasingly joined by the millions of born-again evangelical Protestantswho are so easily and effectively led by their religious and politicalshepards. Man has always created his own culture, upon which his survivaldepends. Birth control and God's will for our lives. Paul who bears key responsibility forintroducing a new emphasis on the evils of sexuality into Christiandoctrine in the 1st century CE, after having enjoyed a playboy's lifestylein his youth. There is no room fordiscussion or debate. Anyone who criticises religious values becomes a target all over theworld. The emphasis is authoritarian. But the fact remains that any educational system deserving of thename must have the best interest of the students in mind. They don't seem to understand that if yourentire morality is derived from unquestioning support for the religion ofyour father, you have sacrificed your claim to morality. In criticising the interference and misinformation by anti-contraception groups picketing schools in Virginia Planned Parenthoodofficial David Nova said:"At a time when access to medically accurate sexuality education is on thedecline in Virginia's public schools, anti-choice activists are filling thevoid with lies and distortions. And politicians from all countries have beenquick to discern that entire nations can be both motivated and controlledby the manipulative use of religion. Works CitedBush, Lawrence. The concerted effort to prevent the truth and technology of sexualityfrom being openly presented to young people in the public schools must beseen in the light of this vain conflict between out-moded values that hasbeen with us since the earliest evidence of recorded history and shows nosigns of quickly disappearing. Education depends entirely on values. It is St. One of the most devisive and relentless battles taking place in thetrenches of the culture wars is the fight for control of women's bodies.Will it be the state or the woman who decides if she uses birth control orhas an abortion? A glance attoday's news confirms it: a President who lied his people into anunnecessary war and has virtually bankrupted his country is re-electedbecause he claims to be a Christian and appeals to the irrational core offear that lurks inside of every human being. The fundamentalist assault on sexuality and women in particular isnot a new phenomenon. The Catholic Church has been strenuously opposing therights of reproductive freedom for women for decades, on very murky andinsubstantial Biblical grounds. "Young people have a right to health care and accurate informationabout sex. Rather that look at the grim effects revealed each day in the news bythe on-going war of these ancient religions, they prefer to persist intheir righteous slaughter. Pregnant Pause. The NFP Files.http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/2879/theo.html. P1. From the point of view of people who are not so mesmerized byfundamentalist preachers and politicians, this is an unmitigated disaster.Advocates for sexual and family planning education in the public schoolssuch as Planned Parenthood, whose clinics have been fire-bombed and whosemedical practitioners have been threatened or even killed byfundamentalists, eloquently describe the harm and futility of thefundamentalist approach of burying one's head in the sand when it comes todealing with human sexuality. Witheach faction blinded by the certainty of their faith, they all fail toacknowledge the fact that their religious conflicts needlessly kill realpeople. But orthodox Judaism and fundamentalist Islam are equallystrict in their emphasis of draconian penalties for what they regard assexual transgressions, since all three faiths share a common historicalroot. Against Contraception in Schools (52188)While all people have some capacity for reasoning, a brief survey of worldhistory makes it clear that man is not a rational animal. In this country, you have a federally mandated censorship of anyinformation about use of contraceptives for the prevention of STD, AIDS andpregnancy. Christian academies do essentially thesame thing, if you substitute the Bible for the Koran. If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.