By now, pro-life groups know that outlawing most abortions is not a plausible aspiration. So they have adopted a two-pronged strategy. The first is to regulate it more closely — with parental notification laws, informed consent requirements and a ban on partial-birth abortion. The second is to educate Americans with an eye toward changing “hearts and minds.” In both, they have had considerable success.
Drop in abortion rate shows society changing, not the law — chicagotribune.com
I am still completely baffled by folks who are supposedly pro-life, yet against accurate sex education for all young people, the lack of which leads to unwanted pregnancies, the need for abortions, and the destruction of lives in all manner of ways. What unskillful thinking!
I suggest that rather than being pro-life, they are guilty of hubris. Look it up.
First of all, where is your authority for this statement? Whenever I see the word “actually” I start looking for the proof. I’m not questioning your statement, but neither do I see any information to back it up.
Second, there is a big difference between abstinence education and sex education, and in the pregnency rates of those receiving each(1). How many of these people got real sex education, discussing the pros and cons of contraception, condoms to prevent disease, STDs, etc., as opposed to “Just Say No”?. There is absolutely no reason to believe that the parents themselves have accurate information to impart. How many parents have bothered to educate themselves in that manner? Most rely on whatever their parents taught them or whatever information (perhaps inaccurate) they picked up along the way.
Finally, had you been able to read the actual article (sorry about that, the Chicago Tribune didn’t ask my permission before archiving it), you would have known that it was lack of accurate information of the type provided in comprehensive sex ed courses that I referred to.
I believe that it is our responsibility to make sure that our young people receive information that can help them avoid deadly diseases and pregnancies that can ruin their lives, not claptrap based on superstition.
(1) ari.ucsf.edu/science/reports/abstinence.pdf