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To: one_less who wrote (68666)	12/7/2004 2:26:07 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Don't these kids have mainly Republican parents? What do they teach their kids? Hypocrisy?

To: one_less who wrote (68666)	12/7/2004 9:08:37 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Re: but we don't know why the rate of preganancy is up for red vs blue. No, dear, you may be clueless, but the rest of us pay attention to reality. The reality is that there is 100% correlation between Planned Parenthood (and similar) organizations per capita and lowered teen pregnancy rates. Abstinence is not the answer to teen pregnancies. Church lady preaching is not the answer to teen pregnancies. The answer to teen pregnancies is modern reproductive choice information and contraceptive means being provided to women (and men). * Here's another interesting statistic for you: Rates of Teenage Childbearing in the U.S. Are the Highest in the Developed World. The U.S. teenage birth rate is the highest in the developed world: twice as high as England’s, three times as high as Australia’s, four times as high as Germany’s, six times as high as France’s, eight times as high as the Netherlands’, and 15 times as high as Japan’s (Annie E. Casey Foundation, 1998; Berne & Huberman, 1999). Reasons for the lower rates of teenage childbearing in these countries include mandatory, medically accurate sexuality education programs that provide comprehensive information and encourage teens to make responsible choices easy access to contraception and other forms of reproductive health care, including abortion; social acceptance of adolescent sexual expression as normal and healthy straightforward public health media campaigns government, support for the right of teens to accurate information and confidential services (Berne & Huberman, 1999) Source: plannedparenthood.org * OTOH, there seems to be an extremely troubling positive correlation between high rates of teen pregnancies and high rates of membership in "born again" Christian cults. Highest Rates: In Alabama, Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle, Planned Parenthood has a mere 6 locations and a majority of the population are "born again": ppalabama.org Lowest Rates: In contrast, three of the four states with the lowest teen pregnancy rates, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont have 26 Planned Parenthood locations to chose from, while "born again" insanity is shared by no more than 20% of the population: ppnne.org *** Conclusions: Teen pregnancy is a much greater problem in regions where "born again" cults have established regimes of superstition, anti-intellectualism and rigid Calvinistic moral codes.