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...chief health official of the state of Virginia, Kay Coles James, attracted the usual supercilious ridicule by urging abstinence as a policy to reduce teenage pregnancy. It will not do, of course. Teenagers will no more abstain from sex than will the frisking neighborhood dogs, and it is fatuous, punitive, Neanderthal to expect them to; the best that adult authority can do is to distribute condoms to the beasts and hope they will pause long enough to slip one on before their urgencies of crotch propel them into the hedge. If they do not take the precaution, well, then...
Another difficulty the University faces in reshaping its alcohol policy is that state law prohibits College officials from suggesting alternative drinking strategies to students. The law mandates instead that Massachusetts colleges only advise their students to abstain from any use of alcohol whatsoever...
...ways to prevent unwanted pregnancies. In fact, the Catholic Church, Harvard's own Alliance for Life and many other antiabortion zealots believe that sex education and the use of birth control are wrong and should not be encouraged. Their ultimate solution to unwanted pregnancies is that people should simply abstain from sex until they are ready to procreate. While this plan works theoretically, it is by no means in touch with societal reality...
Hrnicek, who is also a representative on the COCL, said he "highly doubts" the issue will come to a vote at today's meeting. He will likely abstain if a vote is taken...
...need education, then counseling and then birth control," Bard said. "In an ideal world, abstinence would be great. But those who don't [abstain]...should be rewarded for being responsible enough to seek birth control...