Posted on 05/06/2007 12:31:46 PM PDT by wagglebee
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I say abstinence prevents virtually all pregnancy.
It works for adults also.
Abstinence prevents adult pregnancy, too!
>>CWA Says Abstinence Prevents Teen Pregnancy<<
Of course abstinence prevents pregnancy. The debate is over whether to spend government money on teaching abstinence and whether to prohibit other kinds of teaching.
Personally, I think that in the third world we should support birth control and condoms for disease prevention but in the U.S. this information is widely enough available that the Federal government doesn’t need to fund such efforts - states and locals can do so if they choose.
I would prefer my state and county not spend time on sex until they have great test scores and graduation rates with Georgia kids getting into good colleges but its a state’s right thing to control education - I don’t want to dictate to other states.
Now that said, I suspect that basic information about how to use barriers and birth control reduces pregnancy and disease more than the government teaching kids not to have sex.
It’s the one absolutely safe and effective means of birth control. As the Big Guy used to say, it works every time it’s tried.
Well, of course it does!
Abstinence prevents every other kind of pregnancy, too.
{{{rolls eyes}}}
I take it that YOU are just speculating on this?! :-)
Let me rephrase:
“Abstinence prevents adult pregnancy ... for up to a week, sometimes!”
(And I’m currently not pregnant, for some reason ...)
The Sex Positive Agenda (pushed by Reich, Kinsey, and feminists) seeks to see every sexually active at every age. They seek to end all moral judgements over sexual pairings regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number or species of partner(s).
They find abstinence to be “unhealthy” not because it doesn’t work but because they find it to be a supression of sexual desires (same as when you counsel a homosexual not to act on same sex desires).
Condoms in schools was about ending the debate over whether kids should be having sex and forever shifted the argument to WHEN kids have sex...
You should probably get that checked out, there might be something wrong!
I am a bit puzzled.
“Virtually” is correct. A very small number of women can still get pregnant from wind pollination.
LOL!
Well, there’s a lesson here ... if I can avoid pregnancy, *anyone* can!
I feel pretty positive about sex - but I still don’t want the Federal government spending tax dollars on it except as part of a foreign aid program.
I do think that when someone decides to be sexually active outside of a body fluid monogamous relationship they should use barriers and that its good for barriers to available cheaply. But until the average kid is getting a 650 on his math SAT and doing A.P. level science work I can’t see the Federal government having a role in sex ed. in local schools.
Maybe you can get booked on Oprah!
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