Talking Point looked into whether sex education will help reduce teen abortion. A teen had abortion twice when she was 13 said it is best to avoid sexual relationships.
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Is it me or were the interviewers incredibly rude/insensitive and unprofessional????
“You’ve got two abortions…what’re you going to do to make sure you don’t get a third…maybe even a fourth…”
I cannot believe this made it to TV. What’s the purpose of this? To squeeze out a moral lesson from her? As a warning to teens (how many are even watching this)? They showed virtual disregard for the emotional aspects of a topic like abortion and it sounded poorly researched and planned. Drivel.
Keep the baby!!!
Rude? Perhaps they should learn to handle the truth instead. Keep the baby? Can these teenagers afford it? My own cousin became pregnant at 18 and her own future is destroyed. She is surviving on handouts, and only because we’re pitying the kid, not her.
i agree with Zhiping,
as hosts they could have worded their question more tactfully, not try to further embarrass the teen on national TV. that is uncalled for.
if attached (dating or married) adults cannot be trusted to stay fateful, to pose such question so publicly, what is really the point? this goes against counselling, furthermore a teen who may have yet develope more robust self discipline to prevent yet another pregnancy. such a question should be posed to her parents, as a family what they can do.
Seems like a rather skewed piece to me. Is this an attempt to shock us into supporting a pro-abstinence stance? Is it supposed to highlight the failures of our present sexuality education in schools? Where are the other viewpoints – pro-life and pro-choice? Such shoddy journalism…
CO2 (#5),
Well, do you expect a CNA piece not to be skewed? But anyway, it does raise an important point, not to take premarital sex and abortions likely (i.e. the way AWARE’s now-suspended Sex-Ed Programme was).
Skewed or not, at least I doubt that this program would be a lie.
inix (#3),
what happened to “family as the basic unit of society” with you? You sound Conservative, and yet … well … the way you are treating your cousin and her child is not particularly familial.
Mind you, “pitying” an infant isn’t very loving at all.
It’s not a problem of it being skewed imho, I think it’s just a completely directionless piece. To be skewed, one needs a stance, and here, I have no idea what they’re trying to do besides give the whole affair a negative vibe.
If they’re trying to tell us not to take premarital sex/abortions lightly (Arix), they didn’t succeed, because they barely told us the repercussions of an abortion (the strongest of which is probably the emotional trauma).
And inix, I’m not saying at all that an abstinence/safe sex message should not be given out, but what I’m saying is that they did it extremely poorly here.
Mice is nice, I completely agree. What about the aspect of her family? Red lights were buzzing about furiously in my head when the girl simply said that her dad told her to go for an abortion. Granted, she was extremely young then, but shouldn’t some sort of counselling or discussion have taken place (and if it had, the interviewers should have brought it out)? Although the stance taken on this piece is obviously anti-pre-marital sex, it really did not bring out the main aspects of abortion at all–including vitally the presence of a CHOICE, and the extreme difficulty in making that choice.
A few things about this case:
1. The parents of this teen is very understanding and supportive. That is why she has the chance to live a new life. How many teens are that fortunate?
2. The teen had a 23 years old jobless boy friend. How many such jobless young people in our society?
3. Why is the laws make it more easy for teens to have abortion and troublesome to file police report for underage sex?
The most disturbing thing is we are really clueless of what today’s teen views on sexual activity. Our MSM seldom do a comprehensive coverage of teen problems to give us good picture of the situation.
its a lousy episode of Talking Point, lots of grey areas not dealt with, if need they should have lengthened the program to cover more ground. for such a complex topic i think the time slot is not enough. could have split the issue into parts over several weekends.
that episode too brief, not enough depth. the topic is teen abortion, not Great S’pore Sale leh…
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10) mice is nice
///that episode too brief, not enough depth. ///
My obersvation is that almost all of our local programs are too brief, no depth. And the irritating habit of the host rushing answers from those being interview.
Their famous words, “Very quickly now, please tell us blah bah…”
I find it very intellectually frustrating to watch these programmes. I have since stopped watching them.