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Persecute everybody seems a great plan; how about picking a path through which is the least of evils as there is no answer that makes anyone happy – such as legalizing more cases ASAP? Surely the Pill is a better option than a back street butcher job?

Right on Tropicalevo!

Of course in the West there are no illegal unwanted pregnancies aborted and any disposal is done with due ceremony? They wouldn't just flush em? Please get real or shut up n go home

Well I have only been to 50+ countries and and there were tarts and drunks in most too anyone need directions?

Over 20 years I visited and traveled around Thailand; love it and the people - these are growing pains and will be overcome for sure

I posted the Thread killing news about the Pope and condoms because the posts were all too Catholic for me and depressing; blame without much compassion for the girls/ladies who had suffered in more than one way. Hail to any/all support for education and legalized safe abortions. Whats dead is dead n cant go back; bit more dignity in disposal will help.

News Pope is condoning use of condoms in book of interview to be published next couple of days; not sure if it is just for Priests though

My comment about peeing in the ocean is because the real Job has not yet started if it is being recognized for the huge task it is. Not enuff just a few girls rescued and Aussies made heroes

This train is off the track! Simply put there are working Girls who should know better; there are "nice girls and ladies" who have made a mistake (haven't we all! and us Guys have no responsibility do we? We paid the bar fine etc.) and there are a worrisome number of exploited. Education and access should fix some. Making a fuss about it wont help, making clean easy legal abortions available will, however unpalatable the thought maybe to some/many

For me the boot is on the other foot so to speak. I now have concerns for my beautiful young daughter who is the same age as when I knocked up her mother and paid for an abortion which thankfully did not happen

I am only reading shock horror blame how about more ideas for solutions? Please

actual numbers are not the point 100 is serious enough; the process is the real issue and how to get some humanity and sense into it especially for the Ladies

I am sure Guys wont change (I am/was one of the problems) so the Gals have to be changed for any effect. Condoms and The Morning After Pill issued like counter sweeties is the only solution I can think of

"that of one million pregnancies in Thailand each year, 80,000 are illegally terminated"

Beats me how anyone knows the real numbers

I too agree with BigC this whole episode will make bad worse. Nowhere is there a sane policy on abortion and TOS is not going to get one in our lifetimes

My view is that although the effort is wellintentioned the publicity probably does more harm than good, in that many willthink that the effort makes a difference in reality they are just peeing in theocean and the saved girls won the lottery

Surely no one likes abortion; we seem a bit short on compassion for the lady here who appears to be getting screwed more than once. Is “The Morning After Pill” a solution?

“Depending on the drug, they are licensed for use for up to 107 to 120 hours after unprotected sexual intercourse or contraceptive failure.”

http://www.pda.or.th/eng/fp.asp

Seems to be trying.

Probably The Lone Ranger out there

“ report in 2008 that 80,000 female students became pregnant, about 700 infants were abandoned per year, and 46.8 per cent of women undergoing abortion were under 25”

I struggle with all the issues here having paid for time with Bar/Play Girls without any responsibility for the results. I have also paid for a termination which fortunately didn’t happen and produced a wonderful girl. There is no easy answer and the problems are not going away. Making abortion more difficult, more criminal, or more expensive are not solutions. Education and easy access to contraception seem to me to be the best ways forward. We Guys almost always defer to the Gal to fix the problem. It is not right but that is the reality.

Many thanks RGS2001UK for the references and links. Even during the first chapters of reading “Stripping the Gurus” one quickly forms the opinion that all Mystics and Gurus are dangerous sexually deviant nut cases

I find this very creepy and I'm bothered about this from the perspective of what I might have contributed during my misbehavior for 20 out 30 yrs in region I hope it is illegal

Other than Illegalabortions can someone please clarify what is criminal here?

I wouldn’t even use the energy to press the remote to watchit as all wasted on me personally; just a bit kinky mostly normal. Can anyoneexplain why Gay gets so much attention? Only 5% of all folks are supposed to begay so how come they get so much publicity? Bothers me that there maybe aconversion attempt in the process especially towards younger ones.

USA Gov Stats 25% of USA 14-19 yr old girls have an STD.Some young ones everywhere want to/will get laid/tart. Yes take out the badadults, pimps but be careful what gets criminalized and who gets blamed. I think most current international laws don’t fixthe problems as much as they create criminals.

Having been in SE Asia for last 30 years I long ago gave uptrying to be wise about the age of consent concluding that whatever I was toldI would believe if there wasn't proof to the contrary and no evidence of coercion however my previous post and this info below found on the net addresses my concerns about the growing number of published cases involving young boys and the worry that they cannot be getting enough treatment to prevent themfollowing suit:-

Children and adolescents: victims who become perpetrators Arnon Bentovim &Bryn Williams Adolescent boys who sexually abuse otherchildren represent an important challenge for mental health professionals andfor those working within the child protectionsystem. Adolescent abusers are estimated to be responsible for 30%of reportedabuse.

Given that adolescence is a time when sexual preferences arematuring, it represents a window of opportunity for psychiatrists and othermental health professionals to intervene at this developmental stage with theintention of interrupting any potential escalation in sexually offendingbehaviour.

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