Isn't it funny...?

Question

How many of the people against abortion are also against teaching teenagers about birth control and having sex education in schools, as well as letting homosexuals adopt?

Methinks they're sorta shooting themselves in the foot on this one...

primoa1970 is exactly the kind of person I'm talking about. Because telling teenagers "It's bad, don't do it" ALWAYS works.

Rev. Albert Einstein, because abstanance doesn't work.

Answer 1

While I am most DEFINITELY a pro-lifer, I also respect a woman's right to choose. I do not think the government has the right to say whether a woman can or cannot have an abortion. I also think that our youth should definitely be well educated in the matter. If not for the birth control aspects, then for the prevention of STD contraction! Teaching kids how to protect themselves is not the same as condoning the action. It's not like sending a kid gun range so they'll be able to handle their dad's weapon properly when they take it to school. This is something that directly impacts the people involved and they should be taking care of themselves and not passing stupid onto a new generation.

Answer 2

I completely agree with you. I think. Well my feeling is that Abortion should be the woman's choice. I say woman's choice because I feel that if the guy was too stupid to wrap it. then he has no decision in the matter and has to face the consequences whichever they may be. I also feel we need to teach sexual education in the schools because no matter how many times you tell a teen "sex is bad unless your married and in love" they are going to do it. You have to remember that EVERY teenager thinks they are "In Love" with EVERY person they date from the minute they meet that person. It does not matter if they have only dated for a day they still say "oh we're in love". And as far as homosexuals adopting there are many homosexuals that I know that would be GREAT parents. Better then some of the butt monkeys that are heterosexuals and have kids. If they go through the same screening process that hetero couples go through than there should be no problem. They should be allowed to adopt if they want a child, have the means to care for it, and would truly love the child.

The biggest issue is ignorance in the world. People are ignorant out of choice and it is sad.

Answer 3

I totally agree with you!

I think teaching them abstinence is ridiculous. I think teaching it as an option in a complete sexual education course is fine, but teaching it as an only option is ridiculous. Especially since just about anyone who has a kid, who's related to a kid or in some point of their lives interact with kids..... they know that if you tell a kid NOT to do something... they wind up doing it anyway. So you beat the dead horse with the "No sex! it's EVIL!" crap, and the kid eventually gets to the point where they think "What's so evil about it? I'm going to try it!" they try it... they enjoy it and see nothing wrong with it.... so what happens? they do it unprotected (because they never learned about protection) with one or multiple partners.... they either get a disease or they get (or get someone) pregnant! (or both)

I mean, when i was in school they taught us how we would write checks and balance checkbooks. I even had a specific economics class...... all teaching financial responsibility. Why is it such a terrible thing to teach children SEXUAL responsibility? Also teaching them about the consequences of not being responsible when it comes to birth control.

When they taught us financial responsibility they didn't tell us to abstain from spending money. They taught us how to manage it wisely. Personally, i feel sex is a MUCH more important thing than finance because it can cause many more problems if there is a pregnancy as a result.

I think that if more schools put some informative sex education classes as part of their curriculum we'd see the problems with abortion, and teenage pregnancy significantly drop. Not only do they need to know how the parts work and how protection is essential.... they need to know the financial implications of having a baby and how it can damage the goals they may have for their future.

The reason why the religious nuts want abstinence is because they are afraid of sex. All kinds of sex, except when it is for procreation. They see this natural act as a dirty and sinful act. What they do not understand is that if you repress feelings or urges one day those repressed things can damage you and can cause you to go in the completely opposite direction of where you want to go. A good example of that would be the priests who get off with little altar boys.... They went from prostitutes in the midieval times to altar boys in present times. If priests were allowed to get married and have families rather than remain abstinent i guarantee most (if not all) of that problem would be cleared up. (i say "most" because i'm sure that some are just perverts who get their jollies from little boys)

The bottom line is that sex is not dirty, it's not sinful..... we are, after all, animals with the instincts to reproduce. Those instincts have "evolved" so to speak, and now we have sex for pleasure and intimacy with our partners as well as reproduction.... but abstaining from sex should NOT be taught as an only option. If a kid wants to abstain that's fine, but they must know that it is NOT WRONG to have sex so long as they protect themselves from disease and/or possible pregnancy.

Answer 4

Me agrees. My verdict is still waiting to come back on the adoption issue.
The child's best interests at stake. Loving though a gay couple might be....... I do not think his school life would be that great or loving, It may make or break a kid.
I mean by break..... In the worst possible way.
Nothing sadder than a teen suicide. Its a waste.
Its not the gay parents.... Its the sh!t the kid will have to put up with at school because of it.
In an ideal world...... I support you 100%.

Answer 5

To me trying to hide sex from kids isn't going to work. They are curious and going to experiment. How far they go is what is worrisome. However by saying it's taboo you almost guarantee they will check into it more and more.

Sex ed should be taught and stop making sex seem like it's bad. They can be taught the moral issues all day but they need more than that.

Answer 6

Abortion is WRONG. Teach your kids about birth control and whatever you need to but teach them also responsibility for their actions. Abortion is no different than those mothers who dump their newborns in garbage bags because they are afraid. Let homosexuals adopt. Give a kid a home. If you want an abortion give your kid to a homosexual couple and everyone is happy.

Answer 7

Exactly.
Teach sexual education and birth control in school - a must.
Learn in the home and at church - abstinence.

And for all those people out there who call themselves Christians, and, say it’s murder and wrong and must be outlawed?

The greatest gift God even gave Man/Woman, is FREE WILL.
NOBODY has the right to take away Gods Gift to man.
No one.

Answer 8

i wish that every idiot that advocated "abstinence only" would practice it. that way, only the sane people would be having children.

morality and belief systems, not science, make these fools think that if you don't give teens the info to have sex safely and make the consequences dangerous enough they will not do it. unfortunately, you can't fight evolution. people screw, they have always screwed, and they will continue to screw if that's what their hormones prompt them to do. its a biological imperative.

if you get right down to it its simply an attempt to enforce a moral code over that of reason and science. the people that want abstinence only programs are people that are more concerned with virgins staying virgins for their wedding night than they are with the health of children prior to marriage.

Answer 9

Yes, you're right.

That's one of several reasons why the anti-abortion rights movement bears the responsibility for the ongoing abortion problem.

Probably the bigger problem is the anti-abortion rights folks' insistence that "a fertilized egg is a human being", which gets in the way of a number of effective morally unproblematic alternatives to abortion (for example, "morning-after" pills).

We obviously could have made a LOT more progress towards ending unwanted pregnancies - and therefore abortions - if the anti-abortion rights people (the so-called "pro-life movement") weren't standing in the way. The blood is on their hands, not ours.

Answer 10

Abortion is murder! The sex education I received in school was "Don't do it!, you could get a V.D. The boy will get you pregnant and walk out on you, He will tell all of his friends and your reputation will be ruined! Save yourself for Marriage. I went to public schools!
I saved myself for marriage as did many of my friends both male and female. My best friend as well as her husband were both virgins on their wedding night and they were not particularly religious. They were married in 1966.................
and they still are married to this day! There is nothing wrong with teaching morals!