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Showdown in Batavia IL
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Jun. 23rd, 2008 | 12:57 pm
A group calling themselves the Concerned Citizens for Batavia is demanding the Batavia public library take the link to teenwire.com down from their website. For those of you that don't know teenwire.com is the teen website from Planned Parenthood. Is an incredibly valuable rescourse where boys and girls can go to get information about what is happening to their bodies and hormones, in addtion to information about preventing pregnancy and STI's.
We all know someone in high school who's parents were to afraid to tell them about the birds and the bee's, or thought "don't have sex until your married" was the end of it. We also all know that sometimes no matter what a parent, teacher, or church says some teenagers are going to have sex. We also all know that when you are 16 sometimes you are just to embarrassed to ask your parents certain questions!! I for one would rather have my kids get information from this website, that is medically accurate, then from the best friends big brother like I did!!
This is nothing more then a group of people who are scared to talk about sex, and want to censor what people read. Why are they also not asking the library to take the books off the shelves that talk about sex and puberty??
There will be a meeting at the library on July 15, I urge any of you in the area to come and show your support for keeping medically accurate information available to our children.
We all know someone in high school who's parents were to afraid to tell them about the birds and the bee's, or thought "don't have sex until your married" was the end of it. We also all know that sometimes no matter what a parent, teacher, or church says some teenagers are going to have sex. We also all know that when you are 16 sometimes you are just to embarrassed to ask your parents certain questions!! I for one would rather have my kids get information from this website, that is medically accurate, then from the best friends big brother like I did!!
This is nothing more then a group of people who are scared to talk about sex, and want to censor what people read. Why are they also not asking the library to take the books off the shelves that talk about sex and puberty??
There will be a meeting at the library on July 15, I urge any of you in the area to come and show your support for keeping medically accurate information available to our children.
Batavia Public Library Board Meeting
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
6:00 p.m. Public Hearing
7:00 p.m. Board Meeting
10 South Batavia Ave.