Giving condoms, pills to kids? Hell no!

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I have said it here countless times that the more a woman climbs up the academic or the corporate ladder, the more likely she is to do something that will baffle you. Some of the things or ideas these women on higher academic and career pedestals advance often compel men to ask if they have their senses intact.

 

Take for instance, the Reproductive Health Care Bill recently tabled in Parliament which seeks to introduce condoms and birth control pills in schools. I would like to state without fear of contradiction that the last person I would have expected to come up with such a Bill would be a woman and worse, a senator for that matter.

 

I know condom and pills manufacturers must be sitting on the edge of their seats, encouraging the senator on. If the Bill is passed, it means a big market for their products from our minors who number in millions. But come on, let us face it, is such a move necessary?

 

For those who are yet to comprehend the impact the Bill will have on the society, should it be passed into law, allow me to break it down for you. It will be the first legislation that recognizes children as young as 10 are sexually active. And they therefore need to get access to reproductive health services and products without their parents’ consent. It will be lawful for them to engage in sexual activity as they will.

 

I would agree there are some children, especially the so-called ‘born taos’, who are sexually active, but it does not mean we should accept that as a norm. Folks, we are putting the cart before the horse.

 

 

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We should instead teach teenagers the dangers of premarital sex. They have not changed. Disease and unwanted pregnancies are very much a part of us. And condoms and pills might not eradicate them as we imagine.

 

At this point I would like to support the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) national chairman Omboko Milemba for opposing the Bill.

 

I would also like to support Kenya National Union of Teachers executive secretary Wilson Sossion’s sentiments that the school curriculum should only allow children to be taught responsible sexual behavior but also not to be made sexually active by giving them birth control pills and condoms in their impressionable age.

 

Call me old-school, but I hope I have strongly laid down my case and any sensible parent has to reject the move to provide children condoms and pills.

 

Unless, of course, a parent does not mind becoming a grandparent from his teenage son or daughter. Condoms and pills are not as safe always, you know.

 

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