Okay Jake, here is a question that you can answer?
What contraception technique is 100% fool proof? Without killing unborn or born children?
a. Condom
b. Pill
c. RU486
d. Vaginal Mesh
e. Abstinence
f. put an aspirin between a girls knees and tell her not to let it fall.
Now focus Jake, which one is will prevent a birth 100% of the time?
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Which one is the least practiced out here in the real world?
So, if the car is headed on one direction but you have to go another, to you just give up and go straight because you're afraid to turn?
Why is it always all or nothing with you conservative fools?
"Just say no" didn't work with drugs, and it has never worked with sex. When I was growing up we had abstinence training and nothing else. Half the girls in my class ended up leaving school to get married before graduation, because if you were pregnant, in those days, you were expelled.
As I was growing up, the only sex education we ever received was to say "No" to boys because they were incapable of stopping once they started. There was no birth control pill, so we had to rely on condoms, the Rhythm Method (the only method approved by the Catholic Church), or old fashioned "luck". Girls would suddenly leave town for 6 months and return sadder but wiser. That is the effect of abstinence education.
On the other hand, teach teenagers how their bodies function and how and why to protect themselves, not just from pregnancy but also disease, is giving them the information they will need to cope with the real world where people do have sex, and have to be prepared for that. One of those things which keeps it all sane is reproductive choice.
If society is NOT prepared to allow women reproductive choice when, not if, but when her birth control fails, then that society is obligated to going to find itself overwhelmed with women giving up their children for adoption, as it was in the 1930's through to the 1950's. Ever wonder whatever happened to all of those orphanages which were a fixture of every city and town in the US and which pretty much ended when abortion became legal.