Sex Education
In a discussion about abortion time limits, the topic turned to sex education and the idea of preventing abortions before the are desired, especially in the case of those under the age of 18.
1 in 5 abortions involves a teenage girl, totalling more than 35,000 a year and about 10% of those are under the age of 16. Therefore the conclusion is the sex education in schools is clearly not working!
In a 20th of July debate Philip made the following statement:
"It strikes me that the idea that more sex education will sort out all our problems is an easy and cheap solution. We have given sex education a particularly good go for several years and it does not appear to have worked, so a different strategy might need to be adopted. This never-ending sex education thing seems to encourage a fascination in the whole subject rather than preventing people from indulging in these pastimes and successfully preventing unwanted pregnancies and therefore abortions."
He argued that sex education has only increased 'fascination' with the topic for school children and has in turned increased the number of tennage pregnancies.
He also made the following point:
"I do not feel particularly comfortable sending my children off to school to be told someone else's moral view on such issues. Children go to school to be taught things that their parents cannot teach them, not to be taught things that parents can perfectly adequately talk to their children about."
