Bristol Palin Proves It: Abstinence Education Is Unrealistic
#95 Pelto “….you got any evidence supporting the assumption they aren’t?
Plenty. You do your own homework however. Start here:
scholar.google.com
#94 momof3 — “Perhaps the teen pregnancy rate in your little religious summer town reflects a pro-life atmosphere where the teen pregnancies aren’t flushed down the toilet like a dirty kleenex?”
Even if true this would be merely making the case that the rates are relatively equal on a statistical level. Pelto’s assumption still wouldn’t be validated.
However, it’s not true; I was talking RATES, not dispositions, and this subject is about rates. Funny thing the area is all over the pro-life issue. There are anti-abortion billboards. What’s funny is that any time this is put to an actual vote the pro-choice side always wins.
South Dakota is similar. 2004 and 2008 the anti-abortion groups had state level ballot measures to outlaw abortion. Billboards presenting the pro-life case are all over the state on the road approaches to countless little uber-religious little towns just like the summer town. It’s the very picture of small town white America. The anti-abortion groups not only lost in that red state, but they were outright stomped. And it was the pious residents of the supposed pro-life towns who dunnit.
It appears Pelto presumes piety correlates to upbringing and similarly you seem to think piety correlates to a pro-life stance where pregnancies aren’t flushed. Hard actual data (not presumptions, but DATA) such as South Dakota voting patterns say that you’re wrong.
Your constant bringing up of abortion even in topics not about it indicates that you seem to think it’s being used as birth control, and primarly by and for and supported by the “godless heathens” and their leftist leaders that dominate the urban areas. Sorry. This isn’t true. It’s not just the “godless heathens” who support it. It’s also your pious brethern living in smaller picturesque Beaver Cleaver white towns all across America.
Keeping to the topic abstinence “education” seems less effective than sex ed and handing out condoms.
