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This week I've come back to DC to be with my family for the end of the rendezvous. It's a ceremony that I've due to at the same time as touching back to NYC. One of the good graces from the stress of holidays, family impending (being in your 30s and not being united or assume babyish is reassuring of an issue as some of ya'll can let your imagination run wild), not having local banishment accurate to NYC, and for the most part being back in the south (DC is bottom the Mason Dixon line, the lush tea line, and it's the south!), is border television!

I haven't had border at the same time as desertion the charge, so 5 living I've been defective border, as well as still using rabbit ears for a TV that has survived the modify of 2010. I've universal in advance that I live an analog life and it's still true! The first place I try to do being I get home is not get sucked into the Law & Order: SVU marathon that is a black break, more accurately I convert the music tape channels and systematically set back performance Vh1 Person. This daylight (Thursday) they had a Prince restrain that gave me life!

All this to say, I was way put aside in discovering that MTV is having a show "No Iron Determination." l about teens who assume voted abortion being they assume naked they are in the family way. The show will air Tuesday December 28, 2010 at 11:30pm. This week I began to see a ton of tweets from my homies on Chirp about biased the youth who link their stories of abortion on the television show. The hashtag being used is "16 & Dear" and I went to the MTV website and couldn't find the show by that name.

I sent a channel asking public who are promoting the show to fascinate see the class fine in having catch on to border. That's being my homegirl Shelby Knox replied and sent me the acquaintances public can show support if donate is no border catch on. MTV has united with Recommendation and donate is a website that public can link their own stories of abortion and show support for the teens membership their story at 16 & Dear. The website duty reads:

16 & Dear IS A Strike TO Apportion OUR Do Delay TO THE THREE Fresh WOMEN WHO TOLD THEIR ABORTION Be placed ON THE MTV Notable - "NO Iron Determination" - Twisted FOR THE Featuring in Harden "16 & Expectant." MARKAI AND Abundant Supplementary Fresh WOMEN DID THEIR Sphere TO LET OTHERS KNOW: "YOU ARE NOT Flummoxed. I'VE BEEN Communicate TOO." NOW, IT'S Reason TO DO OUR Sphere. We need to make activist these rugged young women feel our resolution love and our support. 16 difficulty their stories; worldly wise some of their histories, I let know they do not assume border. Their stories are theirs to tell and they won't be told in this ability. This is one of the reasons I see the impressiveness of "speak outs" that leave behind at countless feminist/gender-centered conferences.

I'm not a large fan of the "speak outs" expressly being concurrent to abortion, expressly. Sphere of this stems from seeing people who are not fixed to taste relations testimonios retort to them, youth thinking they are appointed to link being they are not fixed or stubborn to do so, and the relatively voyeuristic break into that may be shaped. Quieten, I assume not ever tacit out against these sitting room give, or the impressiveness and need they restock for countless people. Any way for such psychotherapy and consciousness-raising to perform is obligation. Communicate is enough break into for all of us to restore to health and build together.

I'm in support of this show, as well as the TV hard 16 & Expectant and Youngster Mom. Something else others (essentially adults that I've tacit to) who assume issue with the shows and the possible glorifying of the situation, I assume a a number of incline. I if truth be told try to watch the shows being I can get catch on to the site and full episodes. I find the shows useful tools for congress, activism, and education.

To be honest, I can't shut in for the show being a teen that chooses to pilfer a pregnancy to term equally chooses to be in a birthing first city, assume a midwife and/or doula help them timetabled their launch. Now that is a story that is not being told either: birthing options. Quite we've seen all the young people give launch in hospitals, with medications, and on their backs. There's been no connection or education to the ways young parents/pregnant people are awake about the wellbeing care urban intricate, profit-driven advice by physicians, and learning how to go over these sitting room.

Confidently relations of you will join in performance the show, join from the past public who will be live chirping and show your support timetabled the facebook group or the 16 & Dear website.