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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."

1 posted on 12/12/2007 7:51:31 AM PST by madprof98
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What an idiot. The only thing that directly causes teen births is teen sex.


2 posted on 12/12/2007 7:53:32 AM PST by .cnI redruM (New Republic? Same old Left.)
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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.
3 posted on 12/12/2007 7:53:38 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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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.


4 posted on 12/12/2007 7:54:48 AM PST by Slapshot68
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To leftists,

NATURAL

consequences are "inflicting rigid moral codes on others".

5 posted on 12/12/2007 7:55:29 AM PST by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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Maybe teen pregnancy went down in the ‘90’s because a certain president made oral sex popular and it wasn’t even called sex.


6 posted on 12/12/2007 7:55:36 AM PST by bubbacluck
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...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?
8 posted on 12/12/2007 7:58:57 AM PST by Callahan
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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.


9 posted on 12/12/2007 7:59:05 AM PST by Badeye (Free Willie!)
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Meet Cynthia Tucker: "Girls just wanna have fun -- and get drunk and scr#w."


10 posted on 12/12/2007 8:00:08 AM PST by avacado
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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.


12 posted on 12/12/2007 8:03:18 AM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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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.

16 posted on 12/12/2007 8:09:52 AM PST by capt. norm (Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.)
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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."

18 posted on 12/12/2007 8:28:58 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze
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Cynthia Tucker is really an incredible woman. She’s written literally thousands of columns over decades of being a journalist, and over all those columns has somehow managed a perfect record - she has never been right one single time in her entire life. You can make investment decisions based on the inevitable truth of the opposite of whatever she writes. In fact, the absolute best thing the global warming cultists could do for their cause would be to convince Cynthia Tucker that there is no global warming and have her write a column making that point; no surer proof for global warming could possibly exist.

It takes a special kind of talent to be that dumb.


21 posted on 12/12/2007 8:48:08 AM PST by Turbopilot (iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
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Oh my goodness, this article is (or rather, should be) embarassing for the author. Her lack of understanding of even the most basic fundamentals of social science and statistics is breathtaking.


23 posted on 12/12/2007 9:58:56 AM PST by Paradox (Politics: The art of convincing the populace that your delusions are superior to others.)
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I don’t know about this article. Right now, I’m a researcher for a doctor who is writing a book about politically correct sex education (her name is Dr. Grossman; she wrote the fabulous book “Unprotected.”) It seems that the most effective way to curb teen pregnancy is to isolate high-risk girls (usually those from low-income families who do poorly in school) and encourage them to aspire to more in life than unwed motherhood and view having sex as a self-respect issue. When girls are taught to respect themselves and have goals in life (as opposed to “have sex when you’re ready and use condoms,” which is what liberals want), they are much less likely to get pregnant.

Oh, and they usually don’t get pregnant because they choose abstinence. Condoms have little to do with it. Girls who feel like unwed motherhood is the best they’ll ever get from life don’t care if they get pregnant.


24 posted on 12/12/2007 10:59:24 AM PST by HerzogAEH
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