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To: freelyhovering who wrote (246216)	3/2/2014 5:09:26 PM
From: Metacomet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542160

It really is fascinating how this thread has become a forum on one posters pre-occupation on how poor folks are causing all of our problems and the energy being expended, totally without effect, I might add, to disabuse him of these notions..

To: freelyhovering who wrote (246216)	3/2/2014 5:20:01 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542160

I think we should go way beyond free condoms. We should provide every high school age girl free birth control pills, also free from any parent's knowledge. We should provide any high school age boy free tube tying if he desires it. We should have free condom dispensers placed all over every high school, in every drug store and Seven-Eleven. Maybe have high school water fountains dispense birth control drugs with the water. Make making babies a deliberate opt-in, instead of a too-often forgotten opt-out. I can honestly say that making a baby, although I knew it was a risk, was far from my mind while having sex. I did have a partner who once blurted out after a condom broke, "I get pregnant so easily! But, I'll have your baby and we can get married!", much to my horror. Fortunately, no pregnancy occurred.