Posted on 04/16/2008 4:51:58 PM PDT by wagglebee
I'm not naïve. I know there are 12-year-olds in the world having sex. But it's not normal behavior. A 6th-grader seeking sex lives in a dysfunctional home. More likely she is being raped by an adult perpetrator. That's not what I say. That's what Planned Parenthood and Guttmacher Institute say:
The younger the mother, the greater the partner age gap. Fathers are on average 9.8 years older than mothers 11 to 12 years of age.
I have never known or heard of a father, diligent or absentee, liberal or conservative, who pondered aloud that his 9-year-old daughter in three short years might have unprotected consensual sex, so we must make contraceptives and abortion available to her.
Such a father would be creepy, close to a pedophilia promoter.
Such a father would be Barack Obama, who indicated such at Sunday's Compassion Forum.
As backdrop, everyone is by now familiar with Obama's infamous March 29 statement:
Look, I got two daughters 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. I don't want them punished with an STD at age 16, so it doesn't make sense to not give them information.
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The leftists certainly don't.
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That is an erroneous statement as it stands. But it depends upon how normal is defined. It's normal from a biological point of view for pubertal mammals to have sex. Other points of view (religious, parental, etc.) may disagree
It's also normal from a biological point of view, in some cases, for mothers to eat their young.
How about the article’s statement that Obama is promoting pedophilia?
Really, its time to stop posting WND articles, they are just so ridiculous.
VERY disturbing! He also does not support giving medical attention to babies who have been born alive during partial birth abortion. That is a fact directly from his Ill. voting record!
Jill Stanek is a leader in the pro-life movement, she writes a regular column that they publish, she is not part of their writing staff.
“Look, I got two daughters 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD at age 16, so it doesn’t make sense to not give them information.”
That is downright creepy! Even thinking about the sexuality of two babies that age...his daughters, no less.
He learned well in the Madrassah the roles of boys and girls in this world!
Obama responded: What I was saying was that my daughters are 9 and 6. And so if, at the age of 12 or 13, they made what I would consider to be a mistake, in having sex or unprotected sex, and ended up getting pregnant I think that statistically we know 12- or 13-year-olds who are having children are much more likely to be impoverished, are much more likely to have health problems, are much more likely to have trouble raising that child.
Human beings are not just mammals. Thery have intelligence and will. They do not have to blindly follow instinct.
Girls who start having sex at age 12 have not usually done so consensually. Early sexual behavior in girls leads to years of suffering from STDs, later abortions, loss of self-respect, lesbianism, low self-esteem and a host of other psychological and emotional problems.
Tell that to Margaret Mead.
So essentially, he wants to teach them 'values and morals'; but he also wants to make sure they know that there are no negative consequences for disrespecting those 'values and morals' - thoroughly typical.
I’m sorry to inform you that Margaret Mead is dead. Very dead.
“I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD....”
Man, I wonder how his daughters feel about his views on children. (”Okay, if I had to choose, I’m glad your mom had you rather than herpes, I guess”.)
Well, it's only proper that you should be sorry. I accept your apology.
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