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On May 9, 8:35 pm, DK wrote:
HK wrote:
President Obama vs. Bristol Palin on Abstinence-Only Education
May 08, 2009 7:44 AM
Unwed teenage mother Bristol Palin might be out there talking about
abstinence, but President Obama isn't buying abstinence-only
education.
Two $100 million programs from his predecessor's budget pushing
abstinence only are casualties in President Obama's $3.55 trillion
budget proposal.
The President is replacing them with $110 million “for teenage
pregnancy
prevention programs that have been proven effective through rigorous
evaluation," as spelled out on pages 490 to 495 of the budget
appendix.
Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., applauded the move, saying "eliminating
funding for ineffective abstinence-only programs is a win for
science.
The Obama budget proposal invests in programs that are effective and
based on sound science, rather than wasting millions of dollars on
efforts that have been proven to be ineffective at best."
Palin, meanwhile, told GMA's Chris Cuomo that "regardless of what I
did
personally, I just think that abstinence is the only way you can
effectively, 100 percent foolproof way you can prevent pregnancy."
She didn't have an answer readily available when pressed on how her
personal story squares with the abstinence only campaign she's
pushing.
"I'm not quite sure, I just want to go out there and promote
abstinence
and say, this is the safest choice," she said. "This is the choice
that's going to prevent teen pregnancy and prevent a lot of
heartache."
*A recent study in the journal Pediatrics indicated that teenagers
who
make "virginity pledges" to remain chaste until marriage are no less
likely to engage in premarital sex but significantly less likely to
use
birth control.*
"Taking a pledge doesn't seem to make any difference at all in any
sexual behavior," Janet E. Rosenbaum of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health told the Washington Post. "But it does seem
to
make a difference in condom use and other forms of birth control that
is
quite striking."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpu...ent-oba-3.html
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It's the big brave progressive, picking on little girls and other
helpless foe's...
Bristol Palin simply engaged in premarital sex and got pregnant. If
there is blame in that family, it should be placed at the feet of her
mother, who did not properly educate her daughter and quite possibly
forced young Bristol to not get an abortion.

You refuse to admit that education is not necessarily reduced to practice
by the recipient.


Young unwed girls are impregnated every day by their boyfriends. There's
no news in that. Bristol's former beau admitted during a TV interview that
sometimes the couple practiced safe sex and sometimes they did not. That
sounds about average.

As I stated previously, I do not fault Bristol Palin for engaging in teen
sex. Most teens are sexually active, especially by the time they are close
to finishing up high school. That was true when I was in high school and
if anything it is *more* true today.

Neither Ms. Palin nor her boyfriend seem to be very bright, but I can only
base that on their few appearances on television. There's no evidence
either teen was "educated" properly in matters sexual. In fact, it is
unlikely Bristol received any pragmatic sex education from her mother.

The former boyfriend also stated in interviews that Sarah Palin was aware
her daughter was sexually active before the girl got pregnant. A smart,
concerned mother would have taken a daughter aside and made sure she was
practicing safe sex. Somehow, I have the feeling Sarah Palin did not do
this. I also have the feeling that when Bristol found out she was
pregnant, she probably wanted to get an abortion, but mama said no. It
wouldn't be easy for a young girl like Bristol living in Alaska to obtain
an abortion on her own.

I also get the feeling the Palins are very casual about certain matters.
Sarah Palin at her age had no business getting pregnant, especially since
she already had a full brood of rugrats. When an amniocentesis
early in her pregnancy showed she was carry a fetus with Downs syndrome,
she made the wrong choice. Casual. I don't for a NY second believe her
sense of "morality" intervened, because she certainly is not a person of
high moral character.


Several times above you say your "feelings". That's pure speculation based
on no first hand knowledge. It's the way you "wish" the facts to be.

A wise old man said, "when you don't know, you don't know".