Needing a Bump in Business?
Comprehensive sex education? Planned Parenthood’s research and education arm, the Guttmacher Institute now recommends the following:
Health care providers and health educators should discuss withdrawal as a legitimate, if slightly less effective, contraceptive method in the same way they do condoms and diaphragms. Dismissing withdrawal as a legitimate contraceptive method is counterproductive for the prevention of pregnancy and also discourages academic inquiry into this frequently used and reasonably effective method.
Does anyone remember the Consumer Reports assessment on Planned Parenthood condoms several years back?
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This sounds like dieticians encouraging purging to lose weight…
Comment by Steve — May 22, 2009 @ 1:42 PM
Now I’m waiting for them to take an equally open-minded attitude towards a birth control method that is much more effective than withdrawal. But since it involves periodic abstinence (oh! the horrors!) I’m not holding my breath…
Comment by Margaret — May 26, 2009 @ 11:22 AM
I think the suggestion is that this is like a dentist giving out lollipops, a big supply of lollipops. Or telling patients it isn’t really that important to brush their teeth.
In other words, they are trying to drum up business. You can’t make a fortune doing abortions if no one has unexpected pregnancies.
Susan Peterson
Comment by Susan Peterson — May 29, 2009 @ 3:46 PM