[liberallarry]

I've taught school and been around many, many kids from all kinds of backgrounds - from ultra-sophisticated to ghetto. A great number of them will have the same response to the teaching of abstinance as they have to the teaching of the dangers of marijuana: what a crock of shit!

[liberallarry]

With modern pregnancy testing and contraceptives, mid- and late-term abortions can be reduced almost to zero. Most informed people - even teen-agers - know that. In that light pro-life efforts then become transparant - they're an attempt to force a particular religious view of the world on those who reject it.

The situation with respect to marijuana is similar. Most people who grew up in the '60s and later know from personal experience that only a small minority who use the drug risk serious consequences. Not much different than those who drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes. Attempts by moralists to demonize it then become ridiculous.

[Khepera]

Yes those of which you represent are crocks of $h1t indeed.