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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Planned Parenthood
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Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 23:50:15 EDT
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In article <1710@pyuxd.UUCP> rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen) writes:

>  I think dispensing data about making sex safe and describing
>alternatives to people IS the very purpose of an information center on sex,
>and I for one am glad they do it.

I am generally opposed to premarital sex (and in particular, to teenage
sex), but I find myself in support of wide availability of birth control and
information.  Too many people are going to have sex anyway, and, taking the
lesser of two evils, I'd rather see them using birth control than having
kids at 15.  The main problem with most current programs (and here I think
I'm more concerned with sex education than last ditch sorts of things) is
that, in their zeal to avoid offending the extreme liberals, they refuse to
approach the moral issues at all, thus tending to imply that there aren't
any, and that it is OK to do what you please.  Well, maybe it is OK, but I'd
at least like to see them say "Yes, there are moral questions about such and
such, but it is not our place to talk about them."  A teenage girl who has
had one abortion already and is about to have another really needs to be
confronted with the moral issues involved, even if no answers are given.

Charley Wingate


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