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The mass media is a-buzz over the Alan Guttmacher Institute's “news” on teen pregnancy. Guttmacher and those who advocate free sex for teenagers seem almost gleeful as they misuse the statistics in an effort to destroy abstinence education programs and promote their condom cure-all mantra. To cause as much public panic as possible, the pro-teen-sex activists would have you believe that the teen pregnancy rate has increased across the board for all teenagers ages 13-19. But it is not so.
In their latest attempt to kill abstinence education, Guttmacher activists use sweeping statements to intentionally mislead the media and general public...
Teen Pregnancy Hype
I believe that teaching about pills and condoms has its place-but only in the context of how they are all a two-edged sword. In the hands of married people they are permissible from a civil point, and a moral point only if the thing used is not abortifacient in any way. In the hands of unmarried folks I don't think there's any legitimacy at all; at best it is the lesser of two evils-but then why should anyone be encouraged to make such an immoral choice in the first place?
We've got three sons and a daughter. Believe me we know how difficult it is and what a fine line we walk even though our kids were all raised and...