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这本来就是一篇带有色眼镜的文章
诸如把海外学生原来国家说成多么禁欲多么落后，把到澳洲后的怀孕说成是 “being free for the first time ”不知所措造成的
而楼主更是刻意写了个大标题，又用粗体字highlight文中几句话
以下是原文
Overseas students' alarming abortion rates
ONE in three abortions at the Women's and Children's Hospital is performed on international students, University of Adelaide research has found.
A paper by the Discipline of General Practice says the terminations are predominantly carried out on Chinese students.
The high abortion rate has prompted calls for comprehensive sex education for the tens of thousands of students who make South Australia their temporary home.
Principal researcher Dr Adrienne Burchard found that international students had limited sexual knowledge, could become more sexually active while living in Australia, and did not always know how to access contraception information.
Focus group comments heard by the researchers include: "I heard the pill is harmful for our health . . . it can make you never be pregnant again", and "I wouldn't ask (doctors) about this (sexual health). Is it part of their job? I wouldn't think so."
The latest statistics available are from 2007 and show about 5000 abortions were performed in SA.
Dr Burchard could not be contacted for further comment, but an abstract of her project shows the study was started because of a "disproportionately high number of terminations of pregnancy on international students", and aimed to reduce the rate of sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and abortions.
Sexual health agency Shine SA says international students should have easy access to health services.
"Coming to Australia for an educational opportunity should not be marred by a lack of knowledge about sexual and reproductive health," chief executive officer Kaisu Vartto said.
"Surely as a caring community we have a responsibility to ensure that those people we invite into our community are safe, have access to health care and education and are included in the fabric of our community."
International students do not have access to Medicare. Private health insurance is a visa requirement, but many cash-strapped students give up the insurance once they arrive. International students do have access to some health services through universities.
Further Education Minister Michael O'Brien said the State Government was aware of the problem.
"I've held discussions with Shine about student welfare in general and they made me aware of the statistics about the level of abortions among international students," he said.
"When I established (a task- force on students' experien- ces), I specifically asked mem- bers to look at international student welfare and wellbeing as one of the Terms of Reference."
Opposition families and communities spokesman Stephen Wade says he has been told the figure could be as high as three out of four abortions being provided to international students.
"Whether it's a third or three-quarters it's still a large number of students," he said. "I think it's really important that students, while they're in Australia, get the best of Australian healthcare."
Jill Michelson, Marie Stopes International's SA-based national clin- ical adviser, said about one in three of the women seeking an abortion became pregnant within their first three months in Australia.
"It is a concern. We're certainly finding a significant number of international students attending our services around Australia," she said.
"It's an issue of young people being free for the first time . . . we need to get on to them fairly fast and give them some good orientation and sex education."
Former Federal Liberal MP Bruce Baird is reviewing the Education Services for Overseas Students Act.
He said he had heard about high rates of abortions and inadequate sex education and provision of contraception, and it "certainly makes sense" to make sex education part of the induction process. |
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发表于 3-11-2009 15:56:15
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楼主
，现在已经不是我们那个年代了。脑子里想的是什么我是理解不了了。想想我女儿儿子的，要怎么教育呀。
