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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: A new topic: semi-mandatory birth control
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Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 15:57:42 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  4 15:57:42 1984
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<spay your children now, before they start to spray>

OK, given a safe, effective drug that prevents conception, administering
it to teenagers might not be a bad idea, except that there IS no
safe, effective drug that prevents conception.

Further, it is an extremely bad idea to give any kind of steroid or hormone
to a developing child over a long period of time, since there is just too
little information on the long-term side effects to say what this will do.

Education in natural birth control methods, especially fertility awareness
methods, would work a LOT better.

But - wouldn't that be (HORRORS!) *SEX EDUCATION!?*

Hutch