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To: DonQ
Many schools have adopted an abstinence message as a way to discourage teenagers from engaging in sexual activity, and the Alan Guttmacher Institute isn't happy about it.

That says it all. No teenage sex, no 'unwanted' pregnancy, no abortion mill profits for Planned Parenthood. The rest of the complaint is all smoke.

One of the serious drawbacks to the Bush Administration's subsidy for abstinence programs is that it makes the program exclusive.

Well, 'cute' or not, if you attempt to teach sexual abstinence and then teach so-called 'safe sex' in the next breath, it's - at best - confusing to a teen and at worst, hypocritical and will be seen as a false premise to teenagers. 'Don't do it because......", then - 'If you do have sex, do this first......".
Abstinence is exclusive.

4 posted on 09/07/2001 7:02:23 AM PDT by Jim Scott
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To: Jim Scott
HMMMMMM.....To me I think abstinence would be an answer to abortion,STDs,unloved children,over-population and many other things..not to mention a few less teenage welfare mothers for us to support.
7 posted on 09/09/2001 9:14:14 PM PDT by Dawning Glory
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