Times have changed here since and younger people have been raised differently and with more sense of responsibility regarding sexual acitivities and control.
I don't think the statistics of teenage sex, in the USA bear your argument out. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
I'm not sure why the scare quotes are there. It's obvious that the programs that are 'not working' are really just not working.
There was a superb diary on dKos earlier in the year from a gynecologist explaining why he was happy to perform abortions. It was one of the clearest and most moving pro-abortion pieces I've ever read, and made the point that sometimes it's for very real health reasons - pregnancy can be fatal, after all - and sometimes for quality of life reasons.
I don't think abortion should be casual, but I think it should be available on demand.
And I'm always baffled by the clear association that seems to exist between those who want to 'defend life' before birth and then treat life with contempt after it.
I'm not suggesting BJG is in that group, but it's hard to ignore the correlation in much of the rest of the US.
Looking at other posts in this thread, perhaps we could be calling them
When Gudrun Schyman, party leader for the left party tried to express this in a speach 2002, it was instantly converted to "all men are taliban" in the media. So you are probably right in your parenthesis too. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
And yes, people can poke fun at your son, or at anything else. It won't kill him, and you and he will be more mature if you learn to accept fun, even jeers, without throwing a hissy fit. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
and without remorse
What? You've got statistics on their emotional state as well and they all decided to check
Remorse? NO
Is that right? Please provide a little evidence.
I know. You can't. You can't because this is certainly unsupported by anything approaching scientific research, not to mention common sense. Having helped a few ladies walk to clinics in my time (and I'll happily do it again) the misery the US pro-life crowd --people with attitudes exactly like yours--have inflicted on these girls is reprehensible. When the pro life couldn't beat laws into submissions in the US, they just start breaking the laws, threatening the girls and threatening the abortions performers. "Pro Life" indeed. Bombing clinics, murdering doctors and in general creating their own little reign of terror for those who didn't buy into your pathetically paternalistic attitude about WHO gets to decide whether or not to have a baby is exactly why these things have happened.
You might feel you have some claim to decide about this yourself--and you do--legally, when you are the person carrying the baby. Otherwise, you have no legal right to intimidate or force the issue for someone else, and your emotional tone now vis a vis the 'remorseless' quip--as if you'd know-- reeks of something from the time of the inquisitions. Or, more precisly, reeks of a generally misogynistic attitude. Especially when coupled with your previous comment upthread that suggested the girls were doing it merely as "a matter of convenience". I wear a rubber for convenience. Am I also 'remorseless' and 'a baby killer'? Or does that only fall to the individual who must support another life for nine months, and significantly alter their own lives because some male decided not to be inconvenienced with birth control because 'it wasn't up to him'? So we punish her, right? And call her 'remorseless'. Prostitutes are treated with the same level of respect-- the Johns are never busted, but the hooker goes to jail. (As far as I know Sweden is the only country that flips this general 'rule' on its head, busting the John and letting the prostitute go...oh, yeah, and it works). But I guess you want to apply the same old set of inequities we use here for prostitution to baby making? Wow, that's fair.
Why don't you wrap your head around another much more serious societal problem rather then your fantasy about what the girls might be feeling? You know, like population control. Like the fact that we've reached 6.6 billion and counting and getting a handle on taking care of everyone we've got here now, not making sure we keep reproducing more and more, might be the more intelligent--not to mention more humane--thing to be concerned about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population
