I am getting sick of this ‘Abstinance is 100% effective’ mantra. It is not obvious why the claim is false? Of course abstinance is 100% effective, but only on the condition that *everyone* remains abstinant, *always*. Its completly unrealistic. Teenagers have all the power of their hormones driving them, live in a very sexualised culture, and spend most of their time with friends who are just as hormone-driven. The majority are going to have had sex by the age of twenty, and no ammount of lecturing them is going to change that. Even if the scare tactics are used, you just cant fight sex with any degree of success today.

Abstinance also does absolutly nothing to address the post-marriage situation. Its founded on the pre-sexual-revolution assumption that once someone has a married partner, they are going to want children – this romantic 50′s family life, where every child is wanted, loved and cared for. What happens if a woman marries and wants to persue a career, or if the couple doesn’t have the income to raise a child? They get pregnent anyway, because under abstinance-education they have been told nothing of how to use contraception.

Abstinance education really is an attempt to turn the clock back – to return to those times before contraception, when the gender roles were clearly defined, and the idea that a woman could be happy in any role other than baby-maker was unthinkable.

No dear. The reason Abstinence programs don’t work is that like adults, teenagers like to have sex.

Only two issues you brought up I have problems with. The rest I will chalk up to just a difference in values and quality of life.

1. Abstinence programs in the schools don’t work because they have been way underfunded (starved so that planned Parenthood – a contradiction in terms for them – could continue to gorge on our tax dollars), and because most teachers just did not include it in their curriculum in favor a a more liberal approach to sex education. Abstinence, medically, is the ONLY way to 100% prevent pregnancies.

2. All stem cell research is not one and the same. Killing the “unwanted” babies for their stem cells for which research has yielded much less positive results than those done on adult stem cell not only smacks of a really cheesy horror/science fiction movie, but leads me to believe that the liberal and morally bankrupt people who are for this type of barbary really believe that they should decide who lives and who dies at the expense of another.

3. In EITHER CASE, government and MY TAX DOLLARS should not be funding murder . . . and it is murder. Period.