Republicans: The teen pregnancy party
For the first time in fifteen years, teen pregnancies in the United States are up. The reason is, of course, the nonsense abstinence-only education that’s being foisted upon us. We’re spending hundreds of millions of tax dollars annually on sex non-education that doesn’t work. Comprehensive studies have been done on the subject showing that telling teens not to have sex has no effect on whether they actually do have sex. And why would it? Sex is a natural biological urge that has been programmed into us by hundreds of millions of years of evolution. Kids already don’t listen when told to clean their room, and it’s certainly not as if they experience amazing orgasms from dirty rooms.
Unfortunately, abstinence-only education comes from the religious nutjobs. They deny the truth of basic science, so in addition to not believing in evolution, they think their religion tells them that the only acceptable way to deal with teenage pregnancies is to tell teens not to have premarital sex. Sex is evil, see, so you shouldn’t tell teens how to use protection, even if it prevents pregnancies and the transmission of STDs.
Here’s hoping a Democrat is elected in 2008 and we are freed of this religious tyranny. We should not be wasting taxpayer money on programs that clearly don’t work, and this latest statistic is proof that abstinence-only education does not. States that have abstinence-only education are the states with the highest incidence rates of teen pregnancy? Coincidence? Not really. It’s time the conservatives stopped sticking their fingers in their ears, saying La-la-la-la-la. There’s no denying that teens are going to have sex no matter what you tell them, so you should at least educate them on how to mitigate the consequences of having sex. Sex isn’t cocaine; “Just say no” makes absolutely no sense. “Here’s how to do it safely” does.
