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January 1, 2008
British Bureaucrats Produce Rise in Teen Pregnancy
What a surprise: government efforts to instill sex education in ever-younger children are leading to increased levels of teenage pregnancy in Britain:
Britain tops the league table of teenage mothers in western Europe, despite also having a record number of school-age abortions.
This comes despite the Government investing more than £150 million in an attempt to stem the tide of conceptions — and pledging to cut teenage pregnancy rates by half by the end of this decade.
In the sentence above, "despite" should be changed to read "due to" — and it's not as if no one has told Labour they're driving the wrong way:
Norman Wells, of the Family Education Trust charity, said that the Government had allowed the "systematic removal of every restraint that used to act as a disincentive to under-age sex". There was no evidence that easy availability of contraception reduced teenage pregnancy rates, instead it added to pressure on young girls by normalising under-age sex, he said.
Mr Wells also attacked the Government's commitment to confidentiality policies about contraception which "kept parents in the dark about their children's sexual activity".
"The problems associated with teenage pregnancy will never be solved so long as the Government persists with its reliance on yet more contraception and sex education," he said. "What we need is a radical change away from a culture which has reduced sex to a casual recreational activity."
As even a bureaucrat ought to be clever enough to predict, ready availability of contraceptives and abortion pills have led to higher rates not only of teen pregnancies, but of sexually transmitted infections and abortions.
Britain's left-wing government has done such a remarkable job dealing with teen pregnancy, we should put it to work on other tasks. What if it set out to eradicate genius? No doubt we'd see a generation of Britons with stratospheric IQs.
Meanwhile, we hear calls from Scotland and Barack Obama for sex ed in kindergarten. At least 5-year-olds can't get pregnant.
On a tip from LovingMom.
Posted by Van Helsing at January 1, 2008 11:48 AM
Comments
Moonbats, unable to control any of their impulses, believe that abstinence, and all other responsible behaviors, is impossible. From this perspective, their remedies make sense to them. As Evan Sayet said, all moonbats are not necessarily evil, they just have a distorted mindset. We must focus on the mindset.
The NHS probably has a solution: no health care for pregnant teenagers. Eventually, the NHS will simply stop providing health care and it will be the ideal Marxist entity: humans paid to do nothing.
Posted by: d at January 1, 2008 3:27 PM
Poverty is associated with increased rates of teenage pregnancy and the government efforts to instill sex education in ever-younger children are leading to increased levels of teenage pregnancy
Posted by: Pregnancy at January 2, 2008 5:49 AM
