With all due respect, my conservative viewpoint on this topic is not a rejection of contraception itself. Rather, it is the notion that taxpayers should somehow be mandated to enable all American’s a free supply.
Have to also say that pulling the heartstrings of poor people and teens, doesn’t fly with me either. We should operate from the mandate that people take responsibility for their actions shouldn’t we? That if a couple chooses to have sex, there’s a good chance of a far greater responsibility ocurring 9 months later. We should neither inspire or enable people to be reckless with their decisions.
I also do not follow the comment that conservatives somehow wish to prevent sex education. I’d much rather have people prepared early to understand. I’m OK with school providing some of this, but as a parent, it’s my responsibility.
I agree sex ed should be a parent’s responsibility. However, many of the parents of teens who become pregnant are not responsible people, or are so overwhelmed working 2 or more jobs as a single parent to supply such information if they even knew the correct information. Thus the article I saw in which 50% of pregnant teens did not know that they could get pregnant having sex when they did.