Better Prevention or Changing Attitudes?

Great news, abortion has hit a 34 year low. For those that believe that abstinence is the only way, WAKE UP!
Do you realize that a person is considered an adult at 18? So, do we wait until our children ( better discribed as young adults) are of age before we give them any information about sex? Get real. Teenagers have been having sex since time began. Sex before marriage is not something that happened snice the 60's. Abortion has been around since time began.
#1 post, JOANNEROY, Do you really blieve that being sexually active is the same as using illegal drugs?
"That's no different than saying teenagers can't be taught to abstain from drugs" We are all sexual beings. SEX IS NORMAL. Drug abuse/addiction is a disease, Of course young people can be told that drugs are bad, Do you really think that an adult can just tell a courious, hormone raging young person that they should wait to have sex until adulthood or marriage and they are going to say, "Okay" and turn off their feelings? Of course they aren't. Therefore, it is up to us, as adults to educate them about everything that has to do with sex, sexual transmitted diseases, contraception, self esteem, parenthood, etc, etc.
No education breads ingnorance, ingnorance breads, poor choices. The better educated you are as a teenager, the longer they will wait to have sex, and the partners they chose will be more resepctful and
mature. This is especially true with young girls. I guide my teenagers to be educated in order to make the right decisions, not keep information from them so they don't know what to do if they are confronted with a situation they don't know how to handle. Believe me, there is nothing anyone can do if a teenager decides they want to have sex.

One thing that the abortion debate has shown me is that he parties are both being hypocritical when it comes to certain social issues. Republicans run on the platform of staying the heck out of people???s lives, yet when it comes to Gay Rights and Abortion they are all about controlling the general population decisions. Where as Democrats run on the platform of big government yet when it comes to social issues such as Gay Rights and Abortion Rights they are for freedom of choice. It is sad too because the Republicans would have it right if they just stopped letting Jesus run their party.

Of course we all remember JUST SAY NO. That was the very successful program from Nancy Reagan and the Reagan administration. Reagan's answer to end the drug problem. Good job conservatives. It didn't work then and it wont work now. Just say no...........lol.

I would like to thank Planned Parenthood for being around when I was 23 and decided to have an abortion. No, women don't decide to have abortions the same way they decide to go to the mall or decide to buy a new car---to paraphrase a well-known feminist scholar, "A women chooses an abortion like an animal in a trap chooses to chew off its own leg." Since I had my abortion four years ago, I've taken advantage of incredible educational opportunities, and I know that when I am ready to have a child, I will be better prepared and better able to care for him or her in the manner s/he deserves. I am not proud of my abortion, nor of decisions I made that led up to the need for it, but I am very grateful that I was able to put off childbearing for the chance to complete a graduate degree. Pro-life folks, if you really want to make a difference, please commit your time to supporting young single mothers! I think that a main reason that women choose abortion is because of a perceived lack of social support, and if pro-life people put all the time and energy that they put into picketing and lobbying into forming organizations to provide low-cost, quality childcare for young single mothers, they will have found a much more effective deterrent to abortion.

I think it is the woman's intrinsic right to control her own body..however having said that I do not beleive that abortion is a method of birth control. I do beleive that women come into situations that are scary and uncontrollable and adverse and abortion may well be the only recourse they have. Try to tell me that the child I was pregnant with from a vicious rape should have been carried full term...walk a mile baby...walk a mile

GOD SAYS ABORTION IS MURDER, SAYING YOU DON''T BELIEVE DOES NOT MAKE IT TRUE. GOD'S LAWS APPLY TO ALL OF US, WE DO HAVE FREEDOM OF CHOICE BUT THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES TO BE ANSWERED TO AT SOME POINT IN TIME. THERE IS A DAY OF RECKONING THAT WILL ANSWER ALL THESE QUESTIONS. YOUR ANGER AND CONTEMPT SEEM TO SAY YOU KNOW YOU ARE WRONG BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO ADMIT IT

"I think that it is quite scary that the radical Chrisitan Right is trying to force their beliefs on the rest of us. Who made them the moral police?" posted by Tontabillies
Welcome to Democracy my dear, if the majority of America is Christian, and the Christian principals that they live by states that abortion is wrong, guess what? They are going to vote to make abortion illegal, due to their beleif system. To the "Christian Right "I say "good job". Your voting with your principals and beliefs in tact, something that too many people are afraid to do because their afraid that they might offend someone else. I beleive in God, and I will vote according to my beliefs.

To all the people who say that Planned Parenthood is just like any other business and is entitled to making as much money as they can, I agree with you. But, I don't want to hear any more complains about paying $3 for a gallon of gas and the greedy oil companies.

Here is a direct copy and paste in regards to IUD's "How does an IUD work?
Both types of IUDs work primarily by preventing sperm from fertilizing an egg. They do this in a few different ways. First, they stimulate an inflammatory response in the uterus, causing changes that damage or kill sperm and that may damage an egg as well. In the unlikely event that an egg does get fertilized and survives, an IUD makes it harder for it to implant in the uterus.
The progestin IUD may also thicken cervical mucus, making it more difficult for the sperm to enter the uterus. In addition, the progestin may keep some women from ovulating."

As you can see, using an IUD isn't MURDER!! It is very unlikely that an egg will get the chance to be fertilized. Reasearch about it before you spew GeorgiaJay!! I had one for 9.5yrs and it was the best. I never had a problem with my periods at all as was claimed by GeorgiaJayHawk.

Georgia......religious people are given a command and that is to advance the Kingdom of God. Religious people see this as a religious issue because it is viewed as 'murder'. If there are no PP clinics, then there is no problem. Yes, freedom does allow for piercings, shacking up, purple hair, etc. The reality part is that it is really no one's business what another does as long as it does not cause undo pain or misery to another human. Abortion then becomes the issue of the fetus. Is it human or not? Pro life folks think so. Obviously, pro choice folks think not. What is truly upsetting is that the religious folks are interpreting the teachings in their own way as usual, and throw in scriptures to back them up. Jesus was all about love. Many christians today have a downright hatred for anything and anyone that does not conform to their beliefs. It's sad. We have folks like Jerry Falwell to thank for that.

Yes abortion is both a political and religious issue, but it should be basic human instinct not to kill your own child. From the moment a baby is conceived he is on a very fast track to life. I saw my son???s heartbeat at 6 weeks, so tell me he wasn???t alive. From the very moment you conceive you no longer get the luxury of being selfish. When I hear people say, ???nobody better tell me what to do with my body??? I think of a selfish brat being completely inconsiderate of the growing life inside them. Let???s also remember the lovely partial birth abortion that Clinton signed off. Now we can abort babies all the way up until birth. Ron Paul told a story about a woman whose boyfriend broke up with her so she decided to get an abortion at 8 months; the baby survived the abortion so the doctor had to drown the baby. That doctor got charged with murder, so tell me the difference. You tell me it is ok to pull a baby out of the womb at 6,7,8,9 months while still moving and very much alive, put a large needle in its head to kill him, then pull him out after he has died. You seriously tell me that is ok!