Tired. Really should sleep at some point.
It's the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Much consternation abounds. I caught a story on NPR today: The folks who promote abstinence-only sex-ed are apparently taking credit for the falling rates of teen abortions. I have a feeling that has more to do with sex becoming potentially deadly again, and people realizing that teaching a kid to use a condom may not be a bad idea after all.
Not so! say the abstinence educators. Rates of STDs have increased even as abortions have fallen! And maybe that has more to do with (1) better reporting and tracking, and (2) a bunch of kids who don't realize that you can still get an STD through non-penatrative sex. They don't know that confining your sexual activity to blow jobs doesn't actually protect you from STD cooties.
Look, I wouldn't want anyone to have to go through an abortion. I'm grateful as hell that I've never had to. But I'm equally grateful that, if worst came to worst, I would be able to.
What I don't get -- will never get -- is the folks who want to ban abortion and also want to castrate, as it were, sex-ed. You may not like it, but sex is more than just the mechanism by which we perpetuate the species. People are going to have recreational sex. We're hardwired for it -- otherwise, we'd go into heat every so often like the stray cats in my back yard. So, if you really want to end the practice of abortion, shouldn't you be all over safe, available, effective contraception? It just stands to reason.
I can be cogent and well-reasoned onthis topic. Just evidentally not now.
It's the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Much consternation abounds. I caught a story on NPR today: The folks who promote abstinence-only sex-ed are apparently taking credit for the falling rates of teen abortions. I have a feeling that has more to do with sex becoming potentially deadly again, and people realizing that teaching a kid to use a condom may not be a bad idea after all.
Not so! say the abstinence educators. Rates of STDs have increased even as abortions have fallen! And maybe that has more to do with (1) better reporting and tracking, and (2) a bunch of kids who don't realize that you can still get an STD through non-penatrative sex. They don't know that confining your sexual activity to blow jobs doesn't actually protect you from STD cooties.
Look, I wouldn't want anyone to have to go through an abortion. I'm grateful as hell that I've never had to. But I'm equally grateful that, if worst came to worst, I would be able to.
What I don't get -- will never get -- is the folks who want to ban abortion and also want to castrate, as it were, sex-ed. You may not like it, but sex is more than just the mechanism by which we perpetuate the species. People are going to have recreational sex. We're hardwired for it -- otherwise, we'd go into heat every so often like the stray cats in my back yard. So, if you really want to end the practice of abortion, shouldn't you be all over safe, available, effective contraception? It just stands to reason.
I can be cogent and well-reasoned onthis topic. Just evidentally not now.
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