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From: seb@ahutb.UUCP (seb)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Family Planning
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Date: Wed, 13-Mar-85 15:27:34 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 13 15:27:34 1985
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	I was watching the McNeil Lehrer Report last night and they
had a segment on teenage pregnancy in the US. We're talking about
a major problem here, folks. They had two people on to discuss the
problem. Actually they were supposed to argue whether or not family
planning programs like planned parenthood lead to more teenage
pregnancies by making teenagers more aware of sex. It was obvious
that these two people didn't see eye to eye.
	My question for the listening audience is this: Do you think
planned parenthood programs that provide contraception and education
to teenagers are the cause of the high teenage pregnancy rate in this
country? Or are there other things that convince teenagers to have
sex early and without any contraception?  This argument is important;
the current administration bases a lot  of its stand on family planning
programs on the premise that these programs are responsible for the
high teenage pregnancy rates.
	I wasn't sure where to post this article. I didn't think
net.politics was the right place since I didn't want to have a political
discussion about it. I want to discuss the social issues here. 
Net.singles is one of the few places I could think of where social
issues like this are discussed. Lest you think that this is not an issue
important to singles, remember that planned parenthood provides in-
expensive contraception and abortions for everyone, a lot of whom
are singles like you and me.

Sharon Badian