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!
