CWA Says Abstinence Prevents Teen Pregnancy

Concerned Women for America ^ | 5/2/07 | Concerned Women for America

[wagglebee]

Chortle!

[Tax-chick]

;-).

Time to get organized for church.

[Dan Middleton]

And in the “We hold these truths to be self-evident” category of headlines...

[Lion Den Dan]

CWA Says Abstinence Prevents Teen Pregnancy

You don't say. Who would have thought?

[JimRed]

CWA Says Abstinence Prevents Teen Pregnancy

Yes, 100%; every time it is tried!

[wouldntbprudent]

Now, that is some kind of headline.

[golas1964]

As El-Rushbo says: “Works every times it’s tried!”

[sono]

Actually ... I was thinking In Vitro and other Husxleyesque Assisted Reproductive Technologies.

[Paleo Conservative]

Programs that teach primarily contraception as a means of prevention largely ignore teaching values.

No they don't. It's just that they promote value that are repugnant.

[tiredoflaundry]

Hmmmmmmmmm, I wonder if it prevents STD's also?

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[wouldntbprudent]

I have never understood the concept of “sex ed” anyway.

Please! Explaining where babies come from is a 10 minute biology lesson. After that, it’s all about values. What takes all year to talk about?

[oyez]

The left dosen’t like people taking responsibility for themselves. If more of this was a practice, there would be fewer liberal causes.

[Pinkbell]

The left prefers to encourage free sex as that pieces into their agenda. However, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to picture how healthy our society would be if abstinence would be practiced. Imagine if everyone in our society decided that they would practice abstinence until marriage. For the most part, there would be no single parent homes, children would grow up in a stable environment, teen pregnancy would be virtually nonexistant, STDs would decrease substantially, and crime overall would most likely go down.

Personally, I prefer that basic biology and nothing more is taught. Parents can teach values. However, if they are going to teach something, it should be abstinence. Kids know about birth control and where to locate it the same way they know about alcohol and illegal drugs and wear to get them. Schools should not be encouraging kids to have sex by giving them the tools by which to do so.

[hoosierham]

Actually,not having sex,STDs, or babies tends to free up lots of time for kids to improve those SAT ratings.

Schools that teach no sex outside of marriage also tend to produce kids with higher test scores.Guess which schools .

[gondramB]

>>Actually,not having sex,STDs, or babies tends to free up lots of time for kids to improve those SAT ratings.

Schools that teach no sex outside of marriage also tend to produce kids with higher test scores.Guess which schools .<<

I suspect those are private schools that tend to do better in general.

Whatever approach is taken, and with my kids you can bet its going to include a STRONG pitch to wait on sex, there is going to be some failure rate. Knowing some basic facts, like the importance of barriers and how other birth control won’t prevent disease will reduce the consequences of those failures.

I just can’t see that as an appropriate projection of Federal power into the local school systems.

But neither is the kids going to some place like Planned Parenthood - the abortion focus there is unhealthy in addition to being immoral.

I don’t have a good solution but people who have sex outside monogamy need barriers and its in society’s interest that that barriers be available at low cost.

[hoosierham]

An argument can be made that the consequences should be severe and that aids to facilitate immoral sex be difficult to obtain in order to discourage and reduce the failure rate.

Would you want to argue that making alcohol more widely available to teens would reduce the amount of illegal consumption?

Would you hand out matches to all the kids but tell them not to light them?

The evil ruling of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court has cost this nation TWO generations of citizens,warped the demographics,and the morals and expectations of those citizens still alive.

Bad choices have bad consequences;attempting to remove those consequences often aggravates the situation.

[gondramB]

>>An argument can be made that the consequences should be severe and that aids to facilitate immoral sex be difficult to obtain in order to discourage and reduce the failure rate.

Would you want to argue that making alcohol more widely available to teens would reduce the amount of illegal consumption?<<

No, I’d argue that throughout history there has always been a certain percentage of humans under the age of 20 who have sex.

I’d also argue that this period in time does not stand out as so dramatically more moral as to change that.

Those kids need barriers available or else the coming generation will have even higher disease costs.

I view it more like seat belts in cars. I still tell my kids to drive slow and take the car away if they misuse it but I want seat belts available. I don’t see a role for the federal government to come into classroom and dictate educational policy about seat belts.

[hoosierham]

FEAR can be a powerful motivator.

Fear of starving lead humans to work harder storing up food,fear of winter leads to constructing shelters or moving to warmer areas,fear of being burnt makes most reluctant to put their body into a fire,etc.

Fear of unwanted pregnancy ,being socially outcast,losing future opportunities all have been known to lead to self-imposed restrictions on behavior.

The government is determined to promote homosexuality as a valid lifestyle,promicuity as a personal choice;so I would prefer abstinence and monogamy be given at least equal treatment by gov't schools.