8509, RE:hmmmmmm Posted by jahlove7, Tue Apr-30-02 04:11 PM
>>the fact is that wealthy people have more avenues to sex >information and birth control than than poor. > >i disagree >as stated prior there are numerous >free clinics for inner city >youth that offer the SAME >information, planned parent hood to >be exact..if anything i would >say as far as knowledge >is concerned BOTH sides of >the coin are fairly ignorant >and fairly knowledgable about information >pertaining to conception, contraception and >the like... > there's a major difference between going to planned parenthood and free clinics than to going to your own private physician. also, while pregnancy prevention is stressed by parents regardless of social class, a disportionant number of upper class make it a priority. (reasons: shame on the family, etc.,) the clinics are nice but a lot of young brothas and sistas make the choice to visit these clinics rather than be sent there by their parents.
>a "rich" friend of mine told >me that if i dousch >after sex i won't get >pregnant...a "poor" friend told me >if i get that "pill" >and take it within a >matter of three days i >won't get pregnant... > >do these two people speak for >their entire class? > >NO... > nobody ever suggested that wealth = intelligence. i simply said that being wealthy affords an access to more effective forms of birth control and information. for example: how many of your "rich friends" are using the norplant?
>point is these misconceptions and ideas >run rampid amongst people of >all ages, races, different social >classes etc... > no argument here.
>THIS is what shapes the mind >set and ignites the product >of certain things... >NOT race, or social class.. > so, the tuskeegee experiments weren't based on race? you might wanna think about that one.
>people love to go off on >tangents and create "realities" that's >limited to a "certain" group >and totally ignore the "possibility" >that the SAME things go >on else where... > so true. >this is just a general statement..peace > as is mine. no harm done. peace
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