[snip] Abstinence makes the, uh, heart grow fonder. “There is no evidence at all that telling kids not to fool around has any more impact when the message is promoted by schools than it does when parents say the same thing at home,” writes Arthur Caplan of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania at msnbc.com. “Eleven states have tried to evaluate their abstinence-only programs and the results have been dismal. . . . Evaluators of the Texas program found the same thing. . . . In fact, more students reported having had sex after taking an abstinence-only sex ed course than they did beforehand.”
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[snip] “Sex before marriage is a sin against God,” writes Bill S. at http://blogs.salon.com/0002874/2005/10/18.html#a1929. “On the other hand, abortion is wrong because life is precious, and children are a blessed gift from God. Ergo, if a child is conceived out of wedlock, God is rewarding someone with a precious gift for committing a si–oh, wait, that doesn’t make any sense.”
