Obama "Change" Exploited Teens?
by Renny Hartmann
Issue 110 - June 25, 2008

“Change!” ”Hope!” “Future!” are all catchwords the presumed Democratic nominee for president chronically proclaims in speeches -- where college women are reported to faint. Well, people swooned over Hitler, too, so one should be careful about rhetoric alone.

But one “change” Barrack Obama will never make is his unbridled and intemperate support for abortion all the time for any reason whatsoever. As an Illinois legislator, he voted “present” and “no” consistently on all abortion issues but is most infamous for voting “present” on the Born Alive Infants Protection Program in 2001 and 2002. That bill tried to protect very late-term abortions where a living child is born. In that state, these anomalies could be simply left literally on shelves until they died. Obama said his “present” strategy was suggested to him by Planned Parenthood. A similar bill past the Senate in 2001 with “yes” votes from Barbara Boxer, Hilary Clinton, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, and John Edwards, all acknowledged very liberal Senators.

Obama also supports no parental notification of parents of minors seeking abortions. NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) has given the Democratic heir presumptive a 100 percent rating for 2005, 2006, 2007, and doubtless, 2008.

Nevertheless, I am less concerned about Obama’s various bows to leftist ideology than about the results of this social program that so-called liberals have pushed for forty years. It has resulted in the worst possible circumstances for women. No one wants to mention it, but the misnamed “sexual revolution” may be great for teenaged males and any guy with a wandering eye, but it has overall been miserable for young girls and women. These are the young people Democrats always kvetch about having such compassion for and worrying endlessly about how many villages it takes to raise them.

Here are the current reports from the sexual revolution and the kind of society that this program has produced:

• 4,000 abortion are performed every day
• 1, 293,000 abortions were performed in the US in 2004
• 40,000,000 abortions have been performed since 1973
• 1 percent are for incest/rape
• 3 percent are for health
• 96 percent are for birth control
• 75 percent are performed on females 12-25 years old

These statistics are from Planned Parenthood; ergo, they must be the least provoking or disturbing. Even many of those opposed to limiting abortion agree it is a negative social phenomenon. Presumably, one should want to change this trend. Will Mr. Obama make any proposals for “change”? How about for other results of the sexual revolution?

Concurrently, the CDC claims 25 percent of college-aged women are infected with a contagious venereal disease (they like STD for sexually transmitted disease, but I like venereal from Venus, goddess of erotic love—whenever liberals want to remove moral assessment from a subject, they change the terminology) such as (most commonly today) Chlamydia, Human Papiloma Virus (HPV), genital herpes, and genital warts. Valtrex ads claim 20 percent of all American adults are specifically contagious for genital herpes.

Chlamydia is a bacterial infection and can be cured by antibiotics. However, NO VIRUS HAS ANY CURE. People contracting genital herpes or HPV (associated with cervical cancer) are infected for life. Condoms and the typical liberal jargon about “protection” are belied in problems like herpes or warts because they tend to infect the general public area, thighs, and buttocks, which are not covered by a condom.

Obama says he favors teaching abstinence but still encouraging contraception use. I would say his thoughts on the subject are entirely specious.

In parallel, teenaged girls’ depression rates have skyrocketed recently. The increase is 76 percent, up from 8 percent in 2003. This increase has been accompanied by increased adolescent suicide, of which 75 percent have been tied to incidences of depression.

900,000 teens THINK ABOUT SUICIDE, most of them girls. Twice as many females suffer suicide ideation as young men, although of those who are successful suicides, the majority are boys.

Looking at older people, an epidemic of infertility rages in America, with couples spending up to $50-$60,000, often mostly cash, as the treatments are usually not covered by insurance, for medical assistance in conceiving. A couple is considered infertile if it has not conceived after a year of “unprotected” sex. According to Penn State’s Women’s Health, not a group probably afflicted by any conservative leanings, the infertility situation is probably connected to younger and younger minor girls’ becoming sexually active and passing around the variety of venereal diseases now available (56) and causing pelvic inflammation that can create lesions and scarring internally in women, who may never be aware of either the condition or its damage.

And lastly, parental groups scream that there is a pandemic of autism and want to blame such life-saving techniques as vaccinations against viral diseases like small pox, measles, mumps, whooping cough, diphtheria, typhus, typhoid, tetanus, and polio, killers that kept infant mortality almost 50 percent for children up to two years old for millennia.

My answer, and I am no physician, is the prevalence of autism is another reflection of rampant precocious sexuality combined with the wonderful drug culture concocted by lefties of the 60s. If one glass of wine in a pregnancy’s first trimester, when almost no one knows she is pregnant, can cause fetal damage, how much more damaging must be marijuana, cocaine, methamphetamine, yadda, on a developing embryo? And we already know some venereals can inflict congenital conditions, so I would imagine chronic pelvic inflammations might also heavily contribute to harming fetal growth.

I have seen a fourteen year old keel over from hemorrhage in a freshman high school English because she had an abortion at lunch—this in 1983. In New Jersey, twelve year olds can have abortions without parental knowledge, My own family has seen the younger generations seeking repeated medical help because the children they waited so long to have are not happening. These are now just daily occurrences and personal experiences that the sex “revolution” have made the norm.

In the early 2000s, I became aware in teaching high school that prom nights had become a time for some partiers to have public sex, have it video’d, and uploaded to on the web. I had one girl brag that she was proud of herself. I did not ask why.

But I did begin telling my students that if they want careers in law, medicine, education, even if only driving a school bus and working as a nurse’ aide, that in any field known for deep background checks, their youthful “indiscretion” could cost them a law license or teaching certificate. New York City cops cannot pose for Playboy. No teacher can “date” a student. These prohibitions may seem common sense, but since the left has removed sexual activity from moral consideration, many people think any animal urge they experience needs to be documented and published.

Actually, a recent issue of the NEA (National education Association) newsletter published an article on dozens of “professional” educators across the country that have been suspended and fired for abrogating their moral turpitude clauses in their contracts and/or committing outright crimes against minors in their charge. Some examples are a teacher who posted explicit sex pictures of himself on the net, a coach and administrator who had sex on a school desk and keep the artwork on a school computer, and numerous so-called teachers molesting their charges for the delight of net surfers.

All of my examples show a society and ideology at total odds with people’s health, their educations and plans for futures, their most serious emotional commitments, and their life-long medical security.

All evidence so far is that Candidate Obama is one of the culprits promoting and reinforcing the liberal “norms” forty years of leftist social programming have embedded in our lives. He may want change and hope and a “new” future, but he certainly doesn’t want it for young girls being taunted into sexual practices they can’t even name while they are in junior high. He is not promising anything for the abandoned single mother except corrupting the Supreme Court by appointing judges who will make law while she suffers. Nothing Obama has ever said or voted on would make him seem a person who has compassion or even understanding of the brutality and horror of teenaged depression, abortion, unwanted sexual advances, and lives ruined by the very tenets he claims to stand for in his campaign for the US presidency.

Renny Hartmann is an adjunct college professor in New Jersey and was formerly a high school teacher.