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...doubt motivated by the “moral majority” that so swiftly delivered President Bush to a second term, but there is an inherent intellectual appeal to these programs. If you do not have sex, you cannot get a sexually transmitted disease, or, for that matter, get pregnant. So how effective are these programs...
...effective, even when adolescents are so convinced as to make a virginity pledge. When you control for the number of sexual partners the students had had in the survey, pledgers are in fact more likely on a per partner basis to have contracted a sexually transmitted disease, gotten pregnant and generally suffered all the problems that the Heritage Foundation would have one believe that abstinent teens are immune to. What’s more, the number of partners someone has can be more readily predicted by socio-economic factors than it can by any matrix of abstinence programs, pledges...
...what is an appropriate response? Anyone over the age of 10 knows that if you do not have sex you cannot get pregnant or get an STD. If we want to have adolescents making informed, sensible decisions about sex then lecturing and moralizing is unlikely to be the best way to go about it. They need to make informed choices about sex, and to that end they should be made aware of the risks and the consequences. I didn’t quickly forget what certain STDs looked like in my safe sex class in school and do not take...
...such anonymous case is that of Evalyn Hernandez. Like Laci Peterson, this pregnant young California woman was brutally murdered with her unborn baby. Also like Laci, her remains were found in San Francisco Bay. Interestingly, the national media never even made mention of this case...
...after a five-month, media-frenzied trial; in Redwood City, Calif. Outside the courthouse, hundreds cheered after the verdict was announced. The Peterson case helped inspire the passage earlier this year of a federal law making it a separate crime to harm a fetus during an attack on a pregnant woman. Peterson, whose high-flying legal team will probably appeal the decision, faces either life in prison or death by lethal injection...