40% of US Women Have ABORTIONS!

[MelissaWV]

I haven't adopted,, but I have been adopted by a few. (as Grandpa)

You're one of the older ones!

 

[DerailingDaTrain]

Abstinence and abstinence education are two different things. Abstinence does work. Obviously we have a culture that does not prize and instill self control or respect and encourage chastity so abstinence education is way too late to the game to make a difference.

"Hey Billy, you can have whatever you want, you can be whatever you want, follow your dreams, you can go to college even if you're not a great student, masturbation is a healthy way to explore yourself whenever you want, here is the ipod I bought you even though you do next to no chores and sass me and your mom, check out that chick's ass, only 5 hours of video games tonight, be home by 2am (call me for a ride if you are plastered or high *wink-wink*), for your 16th birthday we bought you a car...oh and btw, you have to restrain yourself in the face of the overwhelming sexual urges you are getting and have absolutely no sex. Yes, I know it's kind of the first time we've asked you for anything like real self control but we hope you'll make us proud."

That's just bad parenting.

 

[otherone]

That's just bad parenting.

More like ignorant hyperbole. When parents can't think critically, they can't teach their children critical thinking. Children aren't taught to question authority, which makes them vulnerable to those who pose as authority.

 

[DerailingDaTrain]

More like ignorant hyperbole. When parents can't think critically, they can't teach their children critical thinking. Children aren't taught to question authority, which makes them vulnerable to those who pose as authority.

I'd stick with calling it bad parenting.

 

[oyarde]

Darn... I used my rep on an earlier post of yours in this thread, but this one deserves it more.

I tried to Rep Pete on that as well , but it would not let me . Nicely done .

 

[oyarde]

And the men can continue... but not with women.

Are you advocating homosexuality? Or just being hypocritical?

I would never do those things.

 

[alucard13mmfmj]

How can you be pro-life and want war at the same time? Lots of children and some pregnant women dies as a result of war.

 

[Hyperion]

I'd rather lose doing what is right than win by lying and killing. I vote for Ron Paul, and not Mitt Romney, for just that reason.

Same here. Abortion stops the beating heart of a defenseless, innoncent being. If we have to become more tolerant of legal abortion to win, then I'd rather lose.

 

[Hyperion]

A lot of liberals say this but I have never seen any proof. In fact from all the numbers I've seen the highest numbers for pregnancies out of wedlock come from the highest populated liberal states of New York and California. Neither of those places are "abstinence only" places for sex education. The reality is that school ran sex education of any stripe doesn't work. And the idea that the government should interfere in it, whether teaching abstinence only or not, is a liberal idea, as Dr. Paul pointed out the Frothy.

The whole idea of sex education is absurd when so many of these kids can't even locate where they live on a map.

 

[moostraks]

This is why people who REALLY oppose abortion are REALLY in favor of contraception. People who oppose both are REALLY anti-sex.

Bull...since no birth control is 100% except abstinence. Not to mention most want to ignore that most forms of birth control are abortifacient to those who believe life begins at fertilization not implantation. Some respect for the fact that sex causes children and having society realize that they cannot run out and vacuum that baby out when their chosen birth control fails would go a long way to improving the moral condition of our society. Children are seen by society as an unnecessary burden that obstructs ones pursuit of idle pleasures. I would much rather suppport an orphanage than a murder institute with my tax dollars. However due to the rise of infertility and the adoptibility of newborns I doubt that would be necessary.

 

[Domalais]

You would be surprised. The amount of pent-up demand to adopt white, attractive, healthy, "normal" infants is huge -- the "supply" could easily triple and be met with adoptive parents.

There, I fixed that for you.