Speaker: Christian Jasper A.

Fortu
Strand : STEM
Year level :Grade 11
Section:Franklin

Title: Preventing teenage pregnancy

Specific Speech Purpose: to provide young people with the knowledge and skills they need to make the
best decisions about sex and relationships throughout their lives.

INTRODUCTION

I. Attention step: Sex education, in its most basic form, is education about sexuality,
contraceptive methods (condoms, drugs, or surgery), how to prevent sexually transmitted
diseases, the importance of protection, and, last but not least, attitudes and principles about
sex. Additionally, there are two types of sex education: abstinence-only programs and
comprehensive education. However, both of them also teach about the process of sex
education, which can lead to teenagers understanding how to make good choices.
Teenagers require information and access to appropriate resources in order to assist and
protect themselves. Because their parents are not open about sex, they turn to the media or
even pornography for information when they have none.

II. Clarification step: developing a community-based approach that integrates school sex
education with parent, church, and community groups, increasing adolescent contraception
knowledge, and providing counseling and medical and psychological health, education, and
nutrition to mothers and fathers in order to reduce low birth weight babies and school
dropout rates Advice to providers is to be involved in supporting community-based
adolescent pregnancy and childbearing programs, as well as serving the needs of teenagers
by providing confidential contraceptive information and nonjudgmental information on
sexuality, pregnancy, and birth control to parents and teenagers.

BODY
I. First major idea :Lack of sex education in the Philippines
a. 1st sub-idea : Parents would rather forbid their children to have sex than to have safe
sex.
b. 2nd sub-idea :Sex is considered as a taboo topic.
c. 3rd sub-idea:The country's strong religious influence is one reason for the lack of sexual
education. Because Catholics constitute more than 80% of the population, abortions are
illegal.

II. Second major idea:Lack of reproductive health laws in the Philippines

a. 1st sub-ideaThere is no separation of church and state when it comes to reproductive
health laws.
 b. 2nd sub-ideaThere has been no discussion about the use of contraception.
c. 3rd sub-idea:Poor couples' contraceptive use remained alarmingly low due to a lack of
information and access. For example, more than half of the poorest 20% of women used
no method of family planning at all, while less than a third used modern methods.

III. Third major idea:Teens need more information on how to prevent pregnancy and STDs.
a. 1st sub-idea: 70% of teens have had sexual intercourse by the age of 19.
b. 2nd sub-idea :41% and 75% do not have information on condoms and contraceptives
c. 3rd sub-idea :Most teens use birth control pills and condoms, methods which are less
effective at preventing pregnancy when not used properly.

CONCLUSION

Summary Step:Teen pregnancy is a crisis that affects the baby, the parents, other family members, and
community resources. Nonetheless, despite the numerous factors that can influence teen pregnancy,
the lack of safe sex education from schools, parents, or others is the root cause of teenage pregnancy
for many teenagers. Teen pregnancies pose additional risks to both the infant's and the mother's health.
Teen pregnancies are more likely to result in low-birth-weight babies and premature births.

References:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1985130/

https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/larc/index.html

https://www.healthline.com/health/adolescent-pregnancy

https://www.aclu.org/other/preventing-teenagers-getting-contraceptives-unless-they-tell-parent-puts-
te

ens-risk

https://www.cdc.gov/teenpregnancy/about/index.htm