Thursday, December 06, 2007
Strumming the teen pregnancy blues
The teen birth rate and births to unmarried mothers have risen for the first time in 14 years. Juli Ponzi observes:
"Not a cheerful or a promising development . . . unless it indicates a reduction in the number of abortions (which I doubt). The widespread availability of birth-control--even to Jr. High students and without the knowledge of their parents--seems to counter the argument that kids need ever-increasing access to and education about birth control in order to promote a reduction in teen birth rates. We’ve done that and now we have more. Hmmmm. Perhaps there are other causes."
What could those other causes be? I'm not sure, but I'll bet George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are somehow responsible (Karl Rove, too).
"Not a cheerful or a promising development . . . unless it indicates a reduction in the number of abortions (which I doubt). The widespread availability of birth-control--even to Jr. High students and without the knowledge of their parents--seems to counter the argument that kids need ever-increasing access to and education about birth control in order to promote a reduction in teen birth rates. We’ve done that and now we have more. Hmmmm. Perhaps there are other causes."
What could those other causes be? I'm not sure, but I'll bet George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are somehow responsible (Karl Rove, too).
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Thursday, December 06, 2007 
