Abstinence, despite what Jacobsen says
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Paul Ross
Published: September 23, 2008
In reference to Gary Jacobsen’s September 16 column: Why have comprehensive sex education in high schools, when we have self-proclaimed OB/GYN expert Gary Jacobsen running his Planned
Parenthood infomercials in the Potomac News?
For someone who last week dismissed Governor Palin as a drag on the McCain campaign, Jacobsen seems awfully fixated on the lady — and now her family. What a brave attack on a 17-year-old girl
and her mother! My question is — does Jacobsen know that the Palin teenager didn’t use one of Jacobsen’s recommended tools of promiscuity? Was he there as some voyeuristic journalist?
It seems obvious that Jacobsen’s pouty obsession with the Palin family and his two-week running visceral reaction to Palin’s candidacy is based on anger (anger that both Bristol and Sarah Palin chose
life in difficult circumstances) and on fear (fear that the tide is turning against his culture of death). Sixty percent of abortions in this country are procured due to failed contraceptives.
Chastity and abstinence before marriage are the only real solutions to unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases — not heaping latex and abortifacient chemicals on our youth.
PAUL ROSS
Montclair
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Posted by ( phdee ) on September 24, 2008 at 7:01 am
The Palin’s 17 yr old daughter obviously did not use one of Jacobsen’s “tools of promiscuity”. Too bad she did not, else she might not have been knocked up.
Abstinence clearly did not work for the Palin family’s daughter. When it comes to abstinence vs. sexual activity, the latter will always win.
Additionally, the dysfunctional Palin family was so busy with the parents “doing their thing” that there was little time for family, love, and atttention. Thus, the daughter sought the attention elsewhere.
The Republican party trotted out on stage the Palin family, and the youth who did the knocking up. It was an attempt to make them “American idols”. They had no shame or disgrace. Indeed, they presented a terrible role model to any youth watching the convention.
The writer asks how does Jacobsen know the girl didn’t use one of Jacobsen’s contraceptives he mentioned. Well, he probably doesn’t know. This line of questioning goes to the heart of anti-contraceptive advocates that condoms, pills, etc. don’t always work. If the girl WAS using a contraceptive, then the Palins must not have known, or are hiding and lying about it. It becomes hypocritical then to advocate for abstinence and no sex ed when you’re providing contraceptives - or knowingly permitting her to use them - as a campaign platform issue. A larger question is “How lomg has she been sexually active”?
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