13 yr old girl wants an abortion

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Originally Posted by Mike

Damn, dude, you're younger than me and they didn't teach you anything in school? I had a sex education section of health class. We put a condom on a banana. This is a town with no hispanic people, very few asians and maybe five black families. Well, back then it was.

If that's the situation now, we REALLY need to pick up the pace here. Damn.

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We had a sex ed class, but there was nothing about putting on condoms or anything. It mostly taught abstinence.

Like I said, I think a better correlation than the one Cow described is based on income and class (like everything else in the US). When you got stuff, or are going someplace, you know that a kid is gonna wreck your life so youre gonna be really careful about it all. If you are living in some South Bronx shithole and you know youre gonna be working at a factory and shit the rest of your life, it doesnt matter as much.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Correlation doesnt imply causation.

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That's true. But even if the lack of education does not factor in at all (which I doubt) it really can't hurt to teach it. All the evidence that I can see supports the idea that people who are better educated about their options have a better shot at avoiding an unwanted pregnancy.

Of course if you want a pregnancy or don't care about avoiding one, that doesn't apply.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Like I said, I think a better correlation than the one Cow described...

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Ignorance is not the only correlating factor, obviously. But it's something that's relatively easy to rectify.

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Originally Posted by Cowutopia

Ignorance is not the only correlating factor, obviously. But it's something that's relatively easy to rectify.

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You cannot make people learn.

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Originally Posted by IronPlant

You cannot make people learn.

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Sure you can.
http://www.pooh.cz/upload/img/1000/mpom-3.jpg

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Originally Posted by Cowutopia

Ignorance is not the only correlating factor, obviously. But it's something that's relatively easy to rectify.

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I dont know about that. For example, I heard the AIDS rate among gays was starting to go back up. Turns out that two decades of warning the community about AIDS and being careful about risky behavior has just desensitized them. That might apply to everyone, I dont know.

Anyway, my point is that telling them how to use a condom or whatever isnt gonna change the socioeconomic conditions that may in fact be closer to the actual reason why more poor/underprivileged people have unwanted babies (although, and this is the truth, poor people have unwanted babies, and unwanted babies keep people in poverty). Its a start, but we shouldnt overestimate it.

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

Sure you can.

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Wow, you're real insightful.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

Wow, you're real insightful.

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Here's more insight- you're a douche. Enjoy.

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

(although, and this is the truth, poor people have unwanted babies, and unwanted babies keep people in poverty)

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It’s a vicious cycle of fucking and poverty

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Originally Posted by diffusionx

(the girl helped, heh =X)

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Who says no good comes of abortion threads? :lol: :lol: :lol: :nod:

It seems like the poor are having 'too many' babies because the wealthier are having too few.

Bloody poor people.