Next They'll Be Wanting to Burn Them

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I read all your opinions and statistics. Frankly, what's right doesn't depend on how many people are doing it whether christians or non-christians.

So basically, you read cold, hard, objective data, but you don't care because your opinions won't change based on reality. Gotcha.

When you have sex between a man and a woman, whether you use birth control or not, abortion availability or not, there's a chance that a living child will result from your act. You may want to abort, but your partner may not. Every time a person engages in sexual intercourse that should be part of the mindset. Are you willing to fulfill your responsibility to your child? That means loving them and supporting them into adulthood. If you, or our teenagers, think that this isn't part of the equation, then we've failed them. The other possibility is that we just don't care about our children which, unfortunately, is often the case. We just want to have fun and don't care about the consequences.

And we should keep teens from driving, because there's a chance they might die on the roads. Planning for the extreme cases is one thing, but you're advocating talking about them exclusively, as though they're the only cases there are. Birth control fails, yes: teach them that, as well as how to use it, but don't lie about how often that is to scare them off using it, as some religious educators do. I'm just saying, don't oversell these things, because doing so hobbles your intended result; if you exaggerate the chances of pregnancy or the harms of sex, then your kids will just feel lied to when they discover that the reality doesn't match what you've been telling them, and now you've got kids that don't think your education is trustworthy.

Congrats.