Hi Bob,

On Sun 2037-Jun-07 07:14, Bob Ackley (1:300/3) wrote to Dan Ceppa:

 DC> Who "poopoo'd" contraception?  What has been noted is
that many groups 
 DC> actively oppose contraception as much as they do abortion. 
 DC> Abstinence  only has resulted in an increase in births for teenagers.  

 DC> Most ironic is that Palin's daughter has once again become an
 DC> abstinence  only poster girl.  She knows that it doesn't work.  She
 DC> has the child  to prove it.  

This is what really rubs my fur wrong about these groups.
Abstinence is not the answer, education is.  IF you don't
like abortion, then you want birth control and std
protection widely available, and you want hte use of such
tools and techniques taught to our young.  THat's the way
you make abortions legal, safe, and rare, emphasis on the
rare.

BA> Note that abstinence is un-natural.

OF course it is.  IN agrarian societies when they married
young this worked great, but these days it doesn't.  When
puberty kicks in all those hormones start raging.  Anybody
know a teenager that isn't walking around in a constant
state of perpetual horny?  THey may not admit it, but they
are.

Regards,
           Richard
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