Originally posted by Logan
Kimmy, I have the utmost respect for you, and I hope you know that,
Logan, ditto for me having the utmost respect for you. However, with all due respect, I don't think using you and Helen as examples will work in this argument. As you know, there are many many many young girls out there that don't have wonderful parents like Helen is lucky enough to have. There are thousands and thousands of young girls growing up in inner cities where alot of times their own mothers need to be taught about birth control, much less having the mother teach the daughter. And I'm not just saying the inner cities are the problems. I'm sure there are thousands of young girls growing up in rural communities that are just as much at danger of getting pregnant at a very young age. Sometimes their excuse is "what else have we got to do?" I know that's a sorry excuse, but we can't look at our view on this, we have to look at it from their point of view.

I have no problem teach abstinence. What I have a problem with is the fact that these teachers much teach abstinence to the exclusion of all other forms of birth control. They can't even answer questions about other forms of birth control! I think it's a great theory to only teach abstinence, but it's not very practical in the real world.

And my last argument with all this is that on one hand Bush preaches about how the Republican party is the party that empowers people to run their own lives and wants government control out of people's lives to they can be free to make their own choices and run their own lives. Then on the other hand he wants to put more governmental controls in people's lives so they won't have the choice of having an an abortion. How is it that he calls Kerry a flip flopper when he clearly speaks out of both sides of his own mouth? "I say less governmental control for the people....oh but wait....except when it comes to abortions. Then we must let the government have complete control and ban all abortions." Someone please explain that one to me.....