being on the pill is common sense for most of us
i realize Catholics have doctrine issues on this and that’s their prerogative
however...teenaged girls forget to take something so simple
It look s like the Palin family is doing the right thing and yes McCain knew.
I have a cousin whose mom was pregger when they married.
My ex-wife was preggers when we married, that daughter is here with me in college now.
One cousin of mine had two teenaged pregnancies in their family. Both girls had the babies of course....one married. The other they are raising it.
I would guess at least 15-20% of attractive teenaged girls get pregnant in our culture. We all wish it weren’t happening everywhere but it is and the crucible is how folks deal with it.
This could be an opportunity to show folks who choose to kill the child how decent folks deal with this when it occurs.
It's not common sense, and it's not "most of us".
One source says about women in the US using contraception that only 30% use the pill. It also says that 38% of women between 15-44 use no contraception. So roughly only 20% of child-bearing age women in the US use the pill. That's far from "most".
In Japan the rate of pill usage among such woman is only about 1% -- they have mor concerns with body chemistry than we do.
Playing with the bodies hormone cycle is a new idea. The pill only came into use in the US in 1960, and was not fully available to all unmarried women until 1972. So long term -- lifetime -- we are only now beginning to see any consequences.
No sir -- the pill is not "common sense" whatsoever.