Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Teenagers will still get laid, they'll just be even more stupid about it

Excellent op-ed in today's NYT about this abstinence only BS. This is noteworthy:

The upshot is that while teenagers in the U.S. have about as much sexual activity as teenagers in Canada or Europe, Americans girls are four times as likely as German girls to become pregnant, almost five times as likely as French girls to have a baby, and more than seven times as likely as Dutch girls to have an abortion. Young Americans are five times as likely to have H.I.V. as young Germans, and teenagers' gonorrhea rate is 70 times higher in the U.S. than in the Netherlands or France.

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