peace

That’s just dagon’s private little fantasy world about domination. He wants the Left to dominate, so obviously Palin must be dominating things the same way. Very funny.

Maybe they’re using reverse psychology???

Naah. I didn’t think so either.

This is what the public wants and expects.

The cable news stations are in competetion for revenue, and they’re just giving us what generates ratings.

News stations are now competeing with the National Enquirer and US Weekly for political “scoops.”

My guess is that you’re probably right.

I guess you _could_ say that homosexuality is the ultimate form of birth control…so it would be effective in preventing pregnancy…!

Your information is incorrect.

“Covenant House’s IRS Form 990 ( http://www.guidestar.org/pqShowGsReport.do?partner=justgive&npoId=332976 ) shows the funds that Paul Kane describes as “slashed” was over a threefold increase ( http://24ahead.com/blog/archives/007978.html ) from the government funds they received from all sources in 2006 (FY2006 ending 12/31/06).”

There have been multiple reports by the CDC, the UN WHO, and a multitude of other health organizations that have definitively shown that abstinence only programs do not work,…

From The Guttmacher Institute:

Each year, almost 750,000 teenage women aged 15–19 become pregnant. The teenage pregnancy rate in this country is at its lowest level in 30 years, down 36% since its peak in 1990. A growing body of research suggests that both increased abstinence and changes in contraceptive practice are responsible for recent declines in teenage pregnancy.1

Read the report here:
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/2006/09/12/USTPstats.pdf

The Guttmacher Institute has played a leading role in the movement for women’s sexual and reproductive rights since the institute’s inception in 1968, when it was founded as the “Center for Family Planning Program Development”, a semiautonomous division of The Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

dg said:

Get over the ideology and the anecdotes and learn how to analyze the data, lest you talk total nonsense.

I agree with dg on this one.

Abstinance should be included in discussions of sex education along with discussion of birth control, std’s, etc. Kids are under tremendous pressure to have sex– most of it by peer pressure and the media– records, mtv, movies, etc. They need the message that it is not only OK, but abstinence affords the best, in fact only, guaranteed way to prevent std’s and pregnancy.
Given that same pressure, kids should be told about contreceptives, etc.

If explicit sex education is a code word for teaching homosexuality, that really isn’t part of the equation and I can’t see how her position on that had anything to do with the pregnancy issue being discussed.

You can try an abstinence-only message; you can try a sex-manual only approach with free contraception available in vending machines in the school lobby; you can try any mix of the two with an emphasis wherever you want it; are you really sure it matters? There are abstinence-only teens who make that work (in that they don’t get pregnant); there are sex-manual teens who make that work (in that they don’t get pregnant). But in either case, their numbers appear to be quite small compared to those who DO get pregnant.

So let me go out on a limb and say: In our culture of wildly permissive sexuality, there isn’t any sex-ed approach that is actually going to work, for the vast majority of our teens. It feels good, they’re gonna do it, and in the tried and true tradition of all American teens, they are immune from death and all other consequences! – and therefore, they end up getting pregnant.

I think the decisions of the Palins to support Bristol should be taken as a moment of maturity and grace. Good for them.