Bristol Palin Proves It: Abstinence Education Is Unrealistic

Pajamas Media ^ | February 24, 2009 | Katherine Berry

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What's absurd about this line of reasoning is that contraceptive education doesn't work, either. From everything we know, Bristol Palin got contraceptive education and so did plenty of other childrent that don't use it. They forget to use condoms for the same reason why they forget their abstinence vows. Their brains are someplace else during the heat of the moment. Yet this is considered a failure for abstinence training but not sex education which, in order to create an illusion of "safe" sex needs to put girls on birth control pills, tell boys to use condoms, keep abortion without parental concent legal, and has to give girls HPV vaccines, cervical cancer screening, and AIDS tests, as well as other STD treatments, date rape education, and the future fertility implications of STDs and so on and they have the chutzpah to call the sex "safe" and pretend as if it's clearly the right solution?

No, abstinence doesn't always work but neither does sex education, and once that's been establishes, it's not about finding the perfect solution but the one with the least consequences for society and young men and women. And for whatever flaws Sarah Palin may have had teacher her daughter about abstinence, she kept the baby and wants to marry the father, which is a far better outcome than "hooking up" with a different guy every week in college, having an abortion, and having trouble having kids in her late 30s, not to mention the substantial increase in risk of heart disease from birth control pills and so on. So is Bristol's situation ideal? Of course not. But it's a lot better than a lot of the scenarios offered by sex education advocates.

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So your solution is to restrict breeding to a 12 year period after the birth of the first child?

ummm - no.