Teen Births Down

Obviously teens are using more condoms, birth control pills and morning after pills, but even those fail, and the article doesn't mention one important point...abortion.

Trust the Associated Press to release a story on pregnancy and birth statistics, and not mention abortion one single time.

I asked my friend's teenage son, who is 15, about sex education in the school system. He goes to a Fairfax Country School in Virginia, where we have some of the best schools in the nation.

He said they have a good sex education program. I asked him about abstinence discussions and he said "oh yeah, they do that too". There has to be something wrong with this picture I thought, so I asked him what they teach besides abstinence. He said they teach about birth control pills, morning after pills, condoms and other stuff.

I said "so you think that's good...that they teach you about how to have "safe sex?" He replied that some people are going to have sex anyway so they might as well know how to prevent pregnancy and disease. "Do you know that birth control pills and morning after pills are abortion pills?" I asked.

He didn't, and I explained how those pills work.

"Did you know that many diseases are not prevented by condoms"? I explained that genital warts and herpes and other diseases like that won't be prevented by condoms.

I then said "The pills cause abortions and many girls become pregnant anyway, even though they use condoms because the condoms fail at a rate as high as 15%."

LaShawn Barber points to an article by Mark La Roi, where he discusses what it means to be a dad and not only take responsibility, but be aware of what the result of sex is.

"Be responsible. If you aren't ready for kids, you aren't ready for sex."

This is exactly what needs to be taught to our kids, not how to have safe sex which just creates more clients for Planned Parenthood, who just so happens to be the company in charge of teaching our children how to have safe sex.

Do we really think teen births are down because Planned Parenthood and our schools are doing such a fabulous job of teaching our children how not to get pregnant?

If you do, I have a bridge I'd like you to look at. It's in Brooklyn and I can sell it to you cheap.

Teen "births" are going down because their children, your grandchildren aren't being born. They are being killed in the womb. Our schools encourage them to do it, teach them how to do it and make it seem as if sex is just one of those perfectly natural animal-like behaviors we all have, and if we have an oops it can be fixed with white-out, an abortion "doctor", who does wear white.

We need to speak to our children honestly and directly. I will remember Mark La Roi's words because what he said has to be the best advice I have seen that we can give to them.

"Be responsible. If you aren't ready for kids, you aren't ready for sex."

A baby isn't something that happens to women as they are walking down the street.

As I was reading this to her, my wife laughingly commented "oh my god, I've been hit by a baby!"

So many people make it seem as if they "got pregnant." We teach our children calculus, trigonometry, science and history and we can't get them to understand that sex=baby?

Mark, you are right when you say to men:

"You are the protector of the home. You are the warrior who will stand and defend his wife, children, extended family and home against all comers. You have the strong arm that lifts little children closer to the sky as they squeal with glee and sweeps your wife across the floor in a loving embrace".

Unfortunately too many men are cowards who say to their women "what are you going to do?" when they find out that their girlfriends and wives are pregnant with their child.

I'm sorry, is coward too strong a word? What would you call someone who not only runs away from protecting a woman and a child, but asks the woman if she will kill his child for him?

If you have been involved in an abortion as a man or a woman, I'm sorry you felt you had to do it. I am neither judge nor jury so it's not up to me to condemn or bless you. I offer everyone friendship.

If you are suffering or have caused suffering, the best friend you can have is God. We are all his children, and he offers us love, patience, guidance and forgiveness, no matter what we have done. We need to acknowledge what we have done wrong and stop doing those things, and also turn to him every day for direction.

Join us in our united Pro-Life Monthly effort at MarchTogether.com to let our representatives know it is time to end the legal murder called abortion.

Even if you don't believe in God. Do you believe abortion is wrong? If so, then help end it.

Not speaking out against abortion is the same as supporting it.

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