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From: gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Second round: Semi-mandatory birth-control
Message-ID: <1114@proper.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Apr-84 23:04:34 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  7 23:04:34 1984
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Organization: Proper UNIX, Oakland, CA
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Keywords: sex education,kangaroos,contraception,teenage pregnancy

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David,  I agree with your concern about teenage pregnancy, but yours
is not the way to correct it.  The `law' you seem to want sounds like
"Well, if you really, really, really, really don't want to take this
contraceptive you don't have to, but we'd like you to."  How enforceable
is this?  (and I don't agree with enforced contraception anyway).

As for sex education not being 100% reliable in avoiding unwanted
pregnancies, well, no system is perfect.  Frankly, what I have seen
of jr high and sr high school sex-ed programs is a rather silly
"Mr Sperm and Miss [Mrs? Ms?] Egg" filmstrips, or films of kangaroo
reproduction.  No wonder kids aren't using condoms and IUD's --
no one TELLS them about them!

I think sex education -- HUMAN sex education -- coupled with
freely available contraceptives would be the best preventative of
unwanted teen pregnancies.