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Sarah Palin, abstinence, and the myth of "safe sex" education
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Posted on 09/02/2008 2:57:07 PM PDT by Truthsearcher

Is there such a thing as “safe” sex?

The recent revelation that the daughter of Sarah Palin is pregnant has raised a furor among Democrats who are calling Ms. Palin a hypocrite for encouraging abstinence. This raises the question, “Is there such a thing as safe sex?”

And I’ll be honest, just like the rest of the world I believed the rhetoric of people like Barack Obama who support abortion and partial birth abortion under the guise of wanting to reduce unwanted pregnancy through education about safe sex.

They wouldn’t talk about safe sex unless it existed… right? Fortunately there have been studies outlining the effectiveness of birth control. And here is a link to such a study:

http://www.contraceptivetechnology.com/table.html

To my surprise it turns out that with “perfect use” a condom has a 2% yearly failure rate. It gets worse, with “typical use” a condom has a 15% yearly failure rate!

Under a typical use scenario a teenager that has “safe sex” for three years will have a 39% chance of getting pregnant at least once. At five years the likelihood of pregnancy reaches an astonishing 56%. Are mothers being responsible encouraging their daughters to have as much “safe sex” as they want given the risks involved?

81% of women sexually active at age sixteen and practicing typical “safe sex” will become pregnant before they reach the average marital age of 26. This excludes those who are not practicing safe sex.

The only way to safely avoid pregnancy is abstinence as proven by the statistics. In fact, if everyone practices typical safe sex we still end up with millions of “unintended” pregnancies each year.

These pregnancies cannot honestly be termed “unintended”. It’s like holding a revolver to your head with a bullet in the chamber and then spinning it and pulling the trigger repeatedly and acting shocked when it eventually fires.

This is how sexually transmitted diseases flourish in our society. It’s these systematic birth control failures that we ignore which spread herpes (26% of all females), AIDs, and other STDs. Does anyone want their son or daughter dealing with a lifetime disease like herpes?

So what are Obama and his abortionist following really advocating if safe sex does not exist? The illusion of sex without consequences. But the 1.2 million murdered babies and sexually transmitted diseases stand in stark contrast to their flowery speeches about safe sex.

Sarah Palin was giving her daughter good advice because abstinence is the only effective method that will prevent pregnancy and STDs. Everything else, as the statistics clearly illustrate, is simply Russian roulette.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: 2008rncconvention; abstinence; palin; sexeducation

1 posted on 09/02/2008 2:57:07 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: Truthsearcher

Teenagers don’t practice safe sex no matter how much they are taught.


2 posted on 09/02/2008 3:02:49 PM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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To: Always Right

SP’s daughter is marrying the father of her baby. I’m from NYC originally but have a friend who comes from a large family in Ohio and although he had had children late, many members of his family marry at 18 and have children at that age. I don’t think it is all that uncommon in middle America.


3 posted on 09/02/2008 3:04:31 PM PDT by JMS
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To: Always Right
Teenagers don’t practice safe sex no matter how much they are taught.

And quite a few won't outgrow the habit!!!
4 posted on 09/02/2008 3:06:15 PM PDT by VOA
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To: Always Right

The point is that it doesn’t matter if they are taught. There is no such thing as “safe” sex, unless it’s a monogamous relationship with someone who is doing the the same.


5 posted on 09/02/2008 3:06:20 PM PDT by Truthsearcher
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To: Always Right

Not only that, but just irresponsibly handing out condoms and thinking that is education is stupid.


6 posted on 09/02/2008 3:08:34 PM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing-----Edmund Burke)
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To: Truthsearcher

Thank you!

Quite informative.


7 posted on 09/02/2008 3:13:52 PM PDT by netmilsmom (The Party of Darkness prefers to have the lights out. - Go Fierce 50!!!)
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To: Truthsearcher

There are some schools that openly encourage kids to experiment sexually.

http://www.positive.org pushes for a “just say yes” approach.

They consider abstinence “unhealthy” because they consider it a supression of sexual desires. Same as when you counsel a person with homosexual desires not to act on the impulse.


8 posted on 09/02/2008 3:24:03 PM PDT by weegee ("We now know far more about Sarah Palin in just 4days than we've learned about B.Obama in 17 months")
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To: Truthsearcher

For gawdsakes, people. Why are we even RESPONDING to this idiocy?

From what I’ve seen, Sarah Palin needs no apologists and shame on us for even dignifying these slings and arrows of desperation with a reply.

The Dem ship is going down faster than the Andrea Doria and the crew is panicking.

Think about it. If an out-of-wedlock child is the best they can do, the libs are T-O-A-S-T.


9 posted on 09/02/2008 3:28:41 PM PDT by Walrus (Those who work should eat better than those who do not)
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To: Truthsearcher

Here’s a question to ask the youngsters “If you knew your partner had aids, would you still have sex with him/her if they/you wore a condom?”


10 posted on 09/02/2008 3:28:47 PM PDT by normy (Don't take it personally, just take it seriously.)
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To: Truthsearcher

>>>There is no such thing as “safe” sex, unless it’s a monogamous relationship with someone who is doing the the same.<<<

Not even then. My youngest brother is a pill baby. Sometimes, life just wins.


11 posted on 09/02/2008 3:29:12 PM PDT by DancingMyRainbow
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To: Truthsearcher
To my surprise it turns out that with “perfect use” a condom has a 2% yearly failure rate. It gets worse, with “typical use” a condom has a 15% yearly failure rate!

Condoms can and do break. Low failure rates of 2% or 15% are not comforting when one discovers post coitum that the envelope has failed.

Further bad news: Condoms are relatively porous with passages approximately 10 microns in diameter. STD's are typically 1 micron in size. You do the math.

There is nothing safe about "sex", unless you've fully vetted your No. 2 and are married to them.

12 posted on 09/02/2008 3:56:22 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: JMS

Hmm....and exactly how old was Obambi’s mother was he was born and if I recall correctly SHE wasn’t legally married to him, was she?


13 posted on 09/02/2008 4:10:32 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: Always Right

Ignorant blanket statement just as false as that site’s “facts” about failure rates.


14 posted on 09/02/2008 4:23:08 PM PDT by newzjunkey (McCain-Palin. YES on CA PROP 4. (Family notification for underage abortions))
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To: Right Cal Gal

yup, and if you read her wiki bio she said a woman didn’t need a man in her life to have and raise a kid.

Of course the drive-bys wouldn’t DARE bring THAT up!


15 posted on 09/02/2008 4:24:13 PM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing-----Edmund Burke)
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To: tpanther

Obambi’s mom didn’t need a “man” - you don’t need a man when you can dump your kids on your parents and then run off to Indonesia to frolic under the pretense of obtaining a useless graduate degree.


16 posted on 09/02/2008 4:36:56 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
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To: Right Cal Gal

not to mention had this been ‘73 instead of ‘61 there may well BE no ObamaNation!


17 posted on 09/02/2008 5:06:15 PM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing-----Edmund Burke)
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