"Abstinence education provides a valuable counterweight to peer pressure and the
message young people get from the popular culture encouraging casual
relationships and separating sex from love, commitment and marriage. I do not
believe in teaching about sex or contraception in public schools. That is the
responsibility of parents. 'I am disappointed that funding for abstinence
education is not likely to be renewed by the Democrat Congress. This reversal
only emphasizes how important it is for Republicans to take back Congress
and win the White House with an authentic conservative in 2008."
I think that teaching abstinence only is like teaching you child to drive safely, and then teach them that they don't need to use a seat belt because they will drive safe. I understand that teaching children to say no is important, but you have to teach them about safe sex because biology is stronger than education. It is the impulse of teen bodies to have sex, teen males are driven to get teen girls pregnant by biology. Does that mean that we shouldn't attempt to control teen sex behavior, no. It can be dangerous on a number of levels and that makes teaching teens to say no is important. It is just a level of understanding reality that teen sex happens, and they need to be taught to do it safely.
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