When I walked into the room, there was this child -- an 11-year-old. She had come in for a procedure, and it soon became obvious that she had no understanding of sex -- she didn't really understand that she'd even had it, or that it had any connection to her pregnancy. We literally had to teach this girl about what it means to have sex -- about STDS, abstinence, and pregnancy. I remember thinking: In a world where people don't want kids to learn about these things, how can you not give them the choice to terminate a pregnancy?In what kind of a world do we live in that people want to educate 11 year-olds about how to have "safe sex" instead of stopping them from having it in the first place?
The problem isn't teaching abstinence, it's a failure to properly explain the risks associated with having sex.
There is no reason why you should keep you child ignorant of the facts of life. You can do that without saying "have safe sex". You say, we don't want you to have sex before marriage, and this is why.
Seems pretty simple to me.