Comments on: Capitol Daily Video: abstinence-only education http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2012/03/06/capitol-daily-video-abstinence-only-education/ News and views on Utah public policy Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Liz Woolcott http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2012/03/06/capitol-daily-video-abstinence-only-education/#comment-1566 Liz Woolcott Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:43:00 +0000 http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/news/?p=2765#comment-1566 What utter nonsense.  Abstinence might be the best policy, but so is honesty.  And in all honest reality – teens have sex.  Not all  of them – but a significant number of them.  While they can come from all walks of life, the most worrisome are those large group of teens that have little parental oversight.  It is this “at risk” group of teens who don’t have any parental input or guidance, let alone supervision, and therefore need the most education to even have a hope of making good decisions.  These are the kids you are hurting.  Not the good kids who might -*gasp*- hear about contraception.  (Like they don’t on TV anyway?)  I mean, honestly, what exactly are you protecting them from?

Just give a straightforward, no-nonsense, completely factual sex education course and let the families and communities reinforce the abstinence point – since it is their influence that will have the most effect anyway.  For those parents that don’t want this kind of education – let them opt out.  Win/Win for everyone.

]]> By: JBT http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2012/03/06/capitol-daily-video-abstinence-only-education/#comment-1565 JBT Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:04:00 +0000 http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/news/?p=2765#comment-1565 The legislature are idiots to listen to the Sutherland Institute and the Eagle Forum.  Look for the rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases to rise in the coming months and years.  Ignorance has a price.

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