Bush policies likely to blame for more teen births [Cynthia Tucker alert]

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 12/12/07 | Cynthia Tucker

[madprof98]

Activists and community volunteers who genuinely wanted to curb adolescent pregnancy —- as opposed to those who just wanted to rail against abortion and inflict their rigid moral codes on others —- worked hard to find programs that actually worked.

To the leftists, telling teens to keep it in their pants is "inflicting a rigid moral code on others."

[.cnI redruM]

What an idiot. The only thing that directly causes teen births is teen sex.

[vetvetdoug]

Actually one can say that the takeover of Congress by the Democrats is the cause for the increase of unwed mothers. The timeline is more in synch with that than the Bush presidency.

[Slapshot68]

LOL, now the Libs are blaming their own social irresponsibility on Bush.

But hey, why stop with sex? Bush continues U.S. policies against illegal drugs...so that forces teens to drink more or procure prescription medications to satisfy their addictions. lol

To quote my Jewish friends...oy vey.

[MrB]

To leftists,

NATURAL

consequences are "inflicting rigid moral codes on others".

[bubbacluck]

Maybe teen pregnancy went down in the ‘90’s because a certain president made oral sex popular and it wasn’t even called sex.

[MrB]

Maybe, but

THROAT GONORHEA

cases skyrocketted.

[Callahan]

...given a culture that uses sex to sell everything from toothpaste to T-shirts. Adolescents are hardly immune to those continuous cultural signals, pumped through music, videos and youth-oriented TV shows such as Fox's long-running drama, "The O.C." And whose fault is that?

[Badeye]

Whats revealing is what happens if you exclude African Americans from this catagory and gun related crimes.

Suddenly, there isn’t much of a problem.

[avacado]

Meet Cynthia Tucker: "Girls just wanna have fun -- and get drunk and scr#w."

[cripplecreek]

Teenage girls often have babies fathered by teenage boys. LOL

[weegee]

The sex positive agenda crowd undermines abstinence only programs. They seek to see everyone sexually active (with a “Just Say Yes” campaign online, a new report to say that “abstinence” can lead to sexual health problems later in life, and a mindset that abstinence is unhealthy because it is a supression of sexual desires).

We’ve gone from 8 years of “oral sex is not sex” and a condom laden Christmas tree in the White House. The kids who grew up in that culture are the ones who are having kids today.

The boat will not change course overnight.

[weegee]

There are quite a few fathered by those over 18. But Planned Parenthood does their best to destroy all evidence of such relationships.

[weegee]

How many adolescents are immigrants dropping an anchor baby off for citizenship?

[weegee]

Their Fox bashing belies an “untruth”, they’ve long claimed that Fox is “conservative”. Fox Broadcasting programming is not conservative. Fox News is not conservative either, NewsCorp executives endorsed John Kerry.

[capt. norm]

The "Branch Algorians" need to get Cynthia into the global warming racket.

She can create this nonsense out of the clear blue without batting an eye.

[EEDUDE]

“Whats revealing is what happens if you exclude African Americans from this catagory and gun related crimes.”

Hey!! You can’t say that!!!

Even if it’s true, you can’t say that!!!!

Get with the program, man!

[Sgt_Schultze]

While President Clinton supported a woman's right to choose, he also said abortions should be "safe, legal and rare."

One of the stupidest positions ever formulated by a purportedly intelligent person. If abortion is not wrong, why does the frequency need to be limited? We don't limit the instances of cyst excision. We don't limit the frequency of tooth replacement. In the liberal world, abortion is just another medical procedure - and we don't ask that other medical procedures be "rare."

[Hoffer Rand]

That’s more true than people realize. Illegitimacy rates among hispanics are skyrocketing, as girls realize that having a baby here is a free ticket to all kinds of goodies. They’re learning what the inner city african american communities learned from Johnson’s great society: unwed mother is a good career move.

[Badeye]

I’m a vet, I’ll say what I wish, when the mood strikes me.

(I know the point you are making)