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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (17255)	4/22/2000 1:13:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 769669

Current worldview is one of taking the easy path. Rather than insist on and preach abstinance, the view is to give em all free contraceptives and teach them how best to use them. No responsibility for morality. It's not just taking the easy path. It is, in large part, a matter of recognizing what Government can and cannot do. We all realize that morality can only be taught effectively in the home. We know that girls deprived of approval and affection at home will crave it desperately and seek it in the arms of men; we know that boys who are not taught to control their impulses and to be responsible for their actions will impregnate girls and run out on them. We know that the basic groundwork for all of these lessons is laid in the preschool years. We also know that Government cannot barge into the homes of parents and force them to teach morality and self-discipline to their preschoolers. We know that the pervasive sexuality of all available media is a significant factor, but do we dare succumb to state censorship, no matter how beneficient the initial aims? Government can do very little to effectively promote morality. And if government observes that teenagers are having sex, what is it supposed to do? Lecture them on abstinence, knowing full well that they aren't going to listen? Or provide them, as a last resort, with the knowledge and the means to do safely what they are going to do anyway? The statistics do indicate that a combination of effective education and free access to contraceptives is an effective way of lowering abortion rates. They also indicate that abortion rates are as high in countries where abortion is illegal as they are in countries where abortion is legal. What is really the priority here, reducing abortion rates or trying to promote abstinence? As far as abortion being a money-making industry, what is the point of that allegation? Any time you have a demand for a service, a money-making industry will spring up to provide that service, it doesn't take an abacus to figure that out. The industry is driven by the demand, not the other way around.