"There is a simple way to prevent unwanted pregnancies and STDs but you seem opposed. I wonder why."
No, I'm not opposed to teaching that abstinence is desirable and the only way to absolutely avoid pregnancy and STDs. I think that's a very important thing to teach.
I'm also in favor of teaching other things that will help kids avoid pregnancy and STDs. I'm in favor of teaching anything that will help kids avoid those things.
When you come up with a way to actually PREVENT teens from having sex, then I'll go along with teaching just that. I'll be waiting....
Why do you believe this is the job of the government? I thought most conservatives wanted government out of our lives?
The one thing I never learned in Drivers Ed was how fast I could go over the speed limit and not get caught. I guess they figured that was an implied consent.
One of my friends taught sex ed to teen mothers. Her take was that the girls were incapable of saying "No". They wouldn't take the Pill because they couldn't remember it or afford it and they didn't use condoms because "he doesn't like it". Their birth control method was hope. The problem was not ignorance of methodology and tools. They simply never learned to abstain.