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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: Planned Parenthood
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Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 10:26:54 EDT
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> 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,  ...  [WINGATE]

I.e., anyone who recognizes that proper education about sexuality is a
necceary part of responsible adolescence and adulthood.

> 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."

Perhaps that's YOUR job as a parent to say such things if you feel they
are appropriate.  Frankly, I am more repulsed at the notion that some yutz
is going to imply religious morality to my children in school where it is
totally inappropriate.  Not everyone feels that pre-marital sex is the heinous
awful thing that you think it is, and their children should not be subjected
to whining moral impositions.

> 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.

Sounds to me like another example of parents not doing their job in the first
place and expecting someone else to pick up the slack.  (Ironic that I just
watched the Senate record rating hearings, and saw, of all people, Dee Snider,
an upstanding Christian, answer Sen. Gore's question "Do you think that's
reasonable to expect parents to do (check out the content of the albums their
children buy)?"  His answer:  "Being a parent is not a reasonable thing.  It's
a hard thing."  Who would have thought Dee Snider had something to say?)
-- 
"to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day
 to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human
 being can fight and never stop fighting."  - e. e. cummings
	Rich Rosen	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr


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