(August 22, 2016 at 4:33 pm)PETE_ROSE Wrote:(August 22, 2016 at 2:45 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: What you are talking about is not the result of promiscuous sex. It is the result of people uneducated in the use of birth control.Seriously? You claim a lack of sexual education is the cause of unwanted pregnancy and the spread of std's?
IUD's, modern pills and patches are 99.7%, or more, effective.
There would be next to none of the problems you mention if REAL sex education was taught in schools.
Teen pregnancy rates have been dropping for years country wide (2012 was the lowest since 1946), except the states where abstinence only is taught.
Yes I do.
The states in the US that have the best sex education (which includes correct use of contraception) have the lowest unwanted pregnancy rates.
"In 2008, the Washington Post reported on a University of Washington study which found that teenagers who received comprehensive sex education were 60% less likely to get pregnant than someone who received abstinence-only education. A 2007 federal report found that abstinence-only programs have had "no impacts on rates of sexual abstinence," reported ThinkProgress."
Quote:I suppose you would say people die from cancer as a result of tobacco use because they weren't educated that smoking increases your risk of cancer.
False analogy.
There is are no methods to safely smoke. There are methods to have sex safely.
Quote:I suppose lack of education may represent a fraction of the blame, but I would state the reasons to be much different.
Then lets see you data to back it up.
As you can see from the article I quoted above, comprehensive sex education lead to 60% fewer pregnancies. So, it is provable that lack of education is the problem, not sex itself.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.