A news item  in the papers  this morning jolted me.  I wonder  if I should call it good or bad. Some doctors have said that  a few years back they used to get 25 – 30 abortion cases every month and it has now reduced to 5-8. This is a good trend indeed.. Would it drop to zero one day? Possibly not.   The lower figure is due to some  other reason.  Contraceptive oral  pills are available in many medical shops these days and the  girls know which shop would supply the stuff without raising an eye lid.  Their indulgence in casual sex  therefore  seems to thrive without any let up.  But what worries a reader is, the candidates concerned  are school girls and teenagers at that.

I recall a funny story I read some years back.  A grand mother had named  her  little  grand child “Diploma”.  Diploma?  What’s that? And she replied, “My daughter got this baby when she went to an institute for a diploma course !”

And now our Indian girls, girls in my city in particular, are acquiring diplomas even before  finishing school.   The 5-8 percent cases are due to carelessness on their  part obviously.  Otherwise the original figure is valid, I should think.

Doctors have  also conveyed that the affected girls go to them during the fifth month of their pregnancy whereof abortion would be dangerous to a mother’s life. They are therefore  sent back home with an advice to deliver the child and pass it on to orphanages or somewhere. Should we call such babies, “Fail mark”?   I pity her parents.

Isn’t  this development  a result of sex education introduced in schools in recent time. Probably the teachers  dramatise the  thing  so much and make it so interesting that  the listeners can’t resist ‘tasting’ it on the quiet.  Why shouldn’t they talk about the serious after effects of such clandestine sex acts? Why shouldn’t they  paint a horrid picture of the fate of a  sixteen year old  bringing out a child at that age and  that it would be a permanent and irremovable  black mark which she has to live with  for life?

Another statistics has it that 89 % of  our youngsters ask their parents to find a spouse for them. We call it ‘arranged marriage’ in our land India.  During any marriage negotiation between the two parties, if the Girl’s parents hide this fact, the girl’s future is doomed.  Some time or the other the Boy or his parents would come to know that the bride had  gone through an abortion or had borne a child earlier. Promptly she would be chased out of their home.  Where will she go?  Naturally back to her  parents or possibly land in a brothel house en route..

If the fact is revealed during the  talk, the marriage would never take place and  her reputation would spread like fire in the area. Poor girl, she has to  remain a half spinster her whole life because no young man, except possibly a widower with 3 children,  would come forward to marry her. .  This is what the school teachers should portray instead of delving into the pleasure of the sexual act.

So, my dear teen age school girls, resist the temptation.  Wait another 5 years or so, get married to a handsome young man as a virgin and indulge in sex to your heart’s content.  If you get pregnant during the first month itself, you would be considered a very fortunate woman and the elders  around you  would  bless you and adore you for that.

Pre marital sex  is dangerous.  It invariably ends in pregnancy.  You would be putting your entire future in jeopardy for the pleasure of a few seconds. Flee from it.  If a Boy says, “Come, it’s a lot of fun, my love.  No harm in it ete etc ,” slap him and kick him. You need to be strong on this.  You are not going to ruin your 50 to 60 years of  married life just by falling for a forbidden fruit !

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