Comments on: The Abortion Scandal

By: Ray Sone Hovijitra

Ray Sone Hovijitra — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 20:07:32 +0000

Greg,
Nice articles and glad to have come across your blog. Came to hear about you from a link to your CNNGo article about the Vietnamese restaurant (from Kevin's Bangkok NileGuide Twitter page). Anyways, I was horrified when I read about this 'abortion scandal' back in November and it certainly made waves back then but as I sadly predicted and as with other tragic and disturbing events in Thailand, it has fallen under the radar and been swept under the rug. A few people were indicted this past week demonstrating the lightning speed at which the justice system works here (sarcasm). I haven't kept up with newspapers but I'm sure the indictment wasn't front page news and the indictment was only in one web article. There hasn't been any postings (in English) regarding this scandal since November either. And instead of focusing on sex education, awareness and preparation the departments of edumacation and anti-turpitude are making recommendations regarding skirt length and blocking indecent web pages. In the meantime their children are ignorantly making babies right behind their backs.
Futilely hoping for a better Thailand, Ray

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:41:33 +0000

It's a touchy issue, but when you take away the debate on whether or not it should be allowed, I don't think anyone can argue that knowledge about sex and its consequences is a bad thing. Megan, good point, it's certainly not an Asian thing that sex education is totally foreign. Maybe my experiences were different? I was learning how to put condoms on bananas putting spermicidal foam on my tongue (yes, really) in grade 9.

By: Megan

Megan — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 06:04:15 +0000

I taught next to the health room in a middle school back in the States, so I talked to the health teacher all the time. You wouldn't believe the questions the students asked because they had NO idea how anything worked. The health curriculum in that county allowed you to introduce contraception, but they had to emphasis abstinence, of course. Anyway, I think the problems you've discussed are everywhere...but different places have different ways of dealing with them.

By: Conan Stevens

Conan Stevens — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:38:28 +0000

I am more worried about how there are mortal remains from the foetus unless the pregnancy is well past the Western safe period for an abortion?

By: Jodi

Jodi — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 03:46:28 +0000

Interesting, Greg. Diplomatic. Controversial!