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I've never heard these stats referred to by name in many of the articles I've read- I just wanted to share a fantastic resource.
07/20/09
Really Randall? Because it's been 35+ yrs since Roe v. Wade was passed and history still isn't holding them responsible. In fact, after each violent convulsion, you and the fucking wingnuts who follow you have been held accountable. FOR 35 FUCKING YEARS.
God, these people really are completely insane (and I mean these people, not anti-choicers in general. Most of them understand that violence only deters from the issue)
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I also feel as though we desperately need to sit the world - or at the least the country - down with a flow chart of "Choosing Your Choice".
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I took health class two years ago in Arkansas, with some of those people who go around to schools and teach about abstinence, and it honestly wasn't that bad. They could have talked more about contraception, but overall they were pretty thorough and discussed a lot more than just abstinence.
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please don't be fooled by your experience. either that group/person wasn't actually a recipient of ab-only money or they were not following federal standards.
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I don't think abstinence education is a good thing, I really don't. But it was a whole lot more informative than the rest of the health class, which was taught by a football coach who worked movies into the curriculum as much as possible. I'm still not sure how Armageddon was relevant to the class.
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OBAMA'S MOTHER IS WHITE YOU FUCKING RACIST PIG. THAT TAKES YOUR DISGUSTING, RACIST, CLASSIST, AND SEXIST COMMENT TO A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL OF DISGUSTING. YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE ENOUGH RESPECT FOR OUR PRESIDENT TO KNOW HIS FUCKING LINEAGE??? WERE YOU NOT AROUND FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS?!
You don't deserve to step foot in my goddamn city, much less have any CONTROL over it. Go die in a fire.
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And who doesn't enjoy seeing a grown man have a condom put on his hand by a teenager. No, not skeevy at all.
06/24/09
I don't believe that those kids were sitting there thinking "man, I am going to have so much sex when this class is over" while nodding along to the propaganda, though they might have been. It's mostly a matter of clinical classroom discussion versus actual real world feelings and experiences.
06/24/09
What are these abstinence teachers thinking? If they assume the kids are going to get married one day, then when they do have sex they're going to need to know a lot more than 'penis goes in vagina, and then you get a baby (and/or an STD)!' And the parents that support this program? They're PARENTS, they should understand the complexities of sex, and want their teens to be ready to handle those complexities when the time comes! Your wedding ring is not going to magically transmit to you everything you need to know about sex as it slips onto your finger!
They might not have sex as TEENAGERS, but chances are they're GOING to have sex eventually, and this might be the only chance you get to really educate and prepare them for it! WHY ARE YOU WASTING IT?!