Here is a link intelligently designed to make the children really blink!

http://home.comcast.net/~ifcj/Inspirations.html

See this explaination:
http://home.comcast.net/~ifcj/Inspirations.html

I believe the author of this article is wrong.  The US teen pregnancy rate is down to 21 per 1000.  The UK is at 30 per 1000 - robbing the US of its first place ranking.

Comment#87875 by RAE on 7/18 at 7:47 pm

RAE, THIS is the $64 trillion question:

....“How did this issue ever become the right of the public to decide.”....

I’ve been asking it myself, for close to 30 years now. How exactly did a medical procedure or medication prescription, between a patient and a physician (or other medical care provider) get to be a PUBLIC ISSUE? I thought Roe v. Wade fixed it, for once and for all.

NOW look….things are truly jacked-UP!!!

We’ve got all of these crazy ideologues that pass as medical professionals in parts of the country, who simply REFUSE to “despense” or REFUSE to provide any family planning services or referrals, just because of their “beliefs”. And, these are men and women.

Can’t tell me everybody hasn’t lost their minds, when there has NEVER been a reason for such a thing to be a “public” issue.

ANY woman, for ANY reason, who wants an abortion will likely find a way (safely or not) to have it whether or not the law or anyone else agrees with her decision.

And I fully support her right to do so.

It is her body, her pregnancy, her future that is at stake, NOT YOURS, anyone else’s or, for certain, the public’s. How did this issue ever become the right of the public to decide?

NOT to become pregnant in the first place would obviously be the BEST situation, but if, for whatever reason this is no longer an option, then any route the woman chooses to take is HER BUSINESS and HERS ALONE.

Everyone else should just BUTT OUT. If you don’t agree with her and me, TOO DAMN BAD. Just don’t get an abortion yourself - that’s as far as your control goes. Period (hopefully).

Comment#87699 by Margaret Currey on 7/18 at 9:23 am

....“I commented “I ate before I met you and I will eat when I leave you.”...

Margaret, this reminds me of that old blues song from back in the day….

  ~ I can do BAD by myself; I don’t need no help, from nobody else.~ (not only that, but I might just do even BETTER, if I get the hell away from YOU) Needless-to-say, I embellished the part in parentheses, although I have been known to say that a time or two.

Anyway, you’re right. The American socio-political system is still highly patriarchal, and it’s annoying, especially when things are so messed up, and somebody needs to fix things, and they’re doing their best to keep us from getting the work done.

But, we’re gonna keep this part of your message in mind:

•  But what the powers that be do not realize is that woman are stronger than men, they just need to realize it.
Now actually, there are a whole bunch of smart guys, that already KNOW this. But you’re right, the women need to know it as well.

~B~ I truly understand about those paraplegic camels and all of that straw.

I am told time and time again by various members of society that positive change will come. Some issue will be the straw that broke the camels back.

I see so many straws and parapalegic camels I wonder which straw and which camel?

Women’s Rights - Civil Rights - Human Rights - Myriad Wars - Rampant Corruption - Massive Debt - Looming Scandal - Torture - Civil Spying - Religious Crap (in sex, education, science, law, policy) - Economic Slavery - Immigration Invasion - Free Trade - Food Safety - Black Ops (around the world) - “Freedom of Speech Zones”

Looks like a bale of straw to me. These are just a few of the issues as well. I think the assault is intentionally all encompassing. They get away with murder while the population is stunned stupid (America’s new favorite pastime).

“I’ve never figured out how it is that the SAME people who object so vehemently to birth control in any of it’s forms, (other than abstinence, and I just don’t think that’s EVER worked, in the history of man/woman kind)are the very SAME ones who don’t want any of the finacial or civic responsibility for caring for these children, and their teenage mothers, or even their adult parents that simply CANNOT afford, for one reason or another, to bring another child into the world.”

Cyrena this beast (known as logic) has never been very well attended to in Washington. Sadly…

B

http://b-political.blogspot.com/

It’s all about ignorance, control and hypocrisy. When preaching abstinence they boo-hoo science, yet when confronted with a life-threatening disease they run to science as fast as they can. Keeping a girl, of age, a virgin is without reason or rationality. Preventing pregnancy should be of the utmost concern. Why bring an unwanted child into the world? Abortion is a terrible way to exercise birth control, this doesn’t not mean I am against abortion, I support the procedure but it should be used only for the purpose it is meant to do. Other means of birth control should be made available free of charge to any girl 15 years old and older through schools and planned parenthood facilities.
With this administration science has been regulated to the back burner and a long time to remedy the superstition that now prevails.

I appreciate the stats reflected here, because things have been looking REAL bad on this front…almost like we’ve been going backwards in the courts here. And, they did everything politically possible, to keep this medication off the market, and make it unavailable, just as they are doing their best to make abortion illegal.

I’ve never figured out how it is that the SAME people who object so vehemently to birth control in any of it’s forms, (other than abstinence, and I just don’t think that’s EVER worked, in the history of man/woman kind)are the very SAME ones who don’t want any of the finacial or civic responsibility for caring for these children, and their teenage mothers, or even their adult parents that simply CANNOT afford, for one reason or another, to bring another child into the world.

So, their is a whole bunch of hypocrisy in the anti-birth control, anti-science camp. And, it’s dangerous to the rest of society.

So, this is actually progress, but we’ve still got a long way to go. There is a very SERIOUS problem with teen births and infant mortality in some of our communities here. It’s been particularly awful in rural areas of Mississippi, where the population, (mostly African-American) are far from any kind of family planning services, and medical social workers are spread thinly.

Some of the local cultural and traditional sorts of mentalities prevent so many of these people from even being in the loop at all, for even the most basic sorts of things that the rest of us take for granted. So many of them NEVER get ANY pre-natal care, and their own health is semi-compromised to begin with, just because they often lack basic information for nutrition.

And, in that case, the problem is still very bad. Hopefully, we can get some of this modern technology to include them as well. All too often, they’ve been sort of forgotten and left out of the loop, which is why the teen mother and infant mortality rates is so abnormally high.

Ideology trumps mere facts anyday of the week. Twice on Sunday. No amount of scientific evidence will ever change these folks minds.