Friday, May 13, 2005

if bush wasn't president, this would be unbelievable!

News from the world of abstinence-only

Every news item I read about abstinence-only education, the more I think it's not the brainchild of misguided idealogues with low regard for the truth and actually a conspiracy to trick an entire generation into early marriage and child-bearing. The
latest news
from Feministing doesn't help my paranoia. Apparently, a school in Bozeman, Montana hired a woman from a organization called (I shit you not) True Lies to give a brief presentation and she threatened them with their lives if they dare use contraception.

Wells demanded the school give equal time to rebut the "misinformation" his son heard: that condoms lead to cancer, that birth control pills are only 20 percent effective, that sexually transmitted diseases are spread by skin contact alone, that third-trimester fetuses can be aborted, that video games lead to homicide, that human papilloma virus can be transferred through condoms and that teens can achieve "second virginity" through abstinence.

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If i had a child in this school i would be furious with the administration for letting escaped lunatics near young kids! I'm at a loss......