sometimes condoms don't work. the pablum that passes for public education is a blight on the intellectual landscape of the nation. fast food is a tasty treat from time to time. what is it you so fear from ideas that differ from your own?
12? Hell no, I'm quickly approaching dirty old man status, not quite ready for the Aqualung swan song yet though. So why would everyone runaway screaming if some wise ass in the audience asks a question that makes this person have to earn her $30,000 ? I'd think the sexual tension would cause alot of blushing, hemming and hawing and probably some nervous laughter. Or who knows maybe the questioner will grow hair on their palm and everybody will know their grandmother was right afterall.what are you, 12?
she'd probably answer it to the best of her ability.
or maybe everyone would just run away screaming.
Good point. People should own their choices about how and on what they will spend their money on.
They virtually never fail. It's terribly misleading to simply say that they "sometimes" don't work. A natural interpretation of that sentence would be that they don't work 10 or 5% of the time, when in actuality the number is far smaller than that. But the fools who promote abstinence purposely mislead teenagers into thinking that condoms are faulty.
I think most of us think it's a good thing that teenagers who get themselves pregnant have the CHOICE between staying pregnant and having an abortion. Sarah Palin and her ilk would prefer women didn't have that choice.
what sarah palin and her ilk would prefer is that that choice was made long before it was necessary to choose between enduring an unwanted pregnancy and causing the death of another human being. that an understanding of personal responsibility was instilled in our youth, instead of tearing down a morality that has held us in good stead for centuries. though i don't agree with their abstinence only stance, i can understand the ethics behind their pro-life agenda and tend to agree that easy access to abortion has served to cheapen the way we value human life.
Conservatives are always afraid of change.
change for the sake of change is no better than being stuck in the past. much of the ethical base we have developed over the centuries is as pertinent today as it has always been. causing unnecessary death, failing to predict the reasonable outcome of our choices and to accept the responsibility for those outcomes are all detrimental to the well-being of society. what of these changes has added anything positive to humanity? it is not change itself that is to be feared, but the negative aspects of that change. we are carelessly engineering a society that values little but its own comfort, a comfort that is fleeting and is gained at the expense of others. our choices are becoming meaningless, having no consequences in the face of a growing trend toward the mediocrity of the mob. the importance of the individual's self-determination is fading, being replaced by the meaningless buzz of the hive.
Actually no. They want to make a medical decision for you that has nothing do with science and everything do with forcing your own morality upon others. And I'm sorry, but I can't believe you don't see the absurdity in using the phrases 'personal responsibility' and 'abstinence only education' in the same breath. I agree that abortion is something that should be rare, but it's not by refusing to teach our kids about contraception that this will happen...
the decision to take a life you have willfully created is seldom a medical one. it is a part of the same common morality that has led us to outlaw infanticide and selling one's children into bondage. the fact that we so casually allow it speaks volumes about our disintegrating national ethos. in all other areas we do not consider our children as property, but here we consider them as little more than biological waste. we have created an artificial time line to justify it, but it is still nothing more than a denial of our responsibility to our offspring.
