Christian Right, Bush and Abstinence Education to Blame for Rising Teen Pregnancy

By GottaLaff

Boy Georgie's insistence on abstinence-only leads to rising teen pregnancy; preachers of family values cover up C Street Frat infidelities; abstinence preacher Sarah Palin showcases daughter who gives birth to out-of wedlock baby; anti-marriage-equality pitchmen Larry Craig, Mark Foley, et al. are "not gay" ... etc., etc., etc.:

This latest report from the Centers for Disease Control confirms it. All that talk of creationism and abstinence-only education set us back behind our global competitors such as India and China in terms of young Americans' scientific education. It also set us back in terms of fighting unwed teen pregnancy and spread of sexually-transmitted diseases. As the Guardian reports:

Teenage pregnancies and syphilis have risen sharply among a generation of American school girls who were urged to avoid sex before marriage under George Bush's evangelically-driven education policy, according to a new report by the US's major public health body

...According to the CDC, birth rates among teenagers aged 15 or older had been in decline since 1991 but are up sharply in more than half of American states since 2005. The study also revealed that the number of teenage females with syphilis has risen by nearly half after a significant decrease while a two-decade fall in the gonorrhea infection rate is being reversed. The number of Aids cases in adolescent boys has nearly doubled.

While we're at it let's not forget something that is rarely addressed in mainstream media. The Christian Right is playing a part in increasing unwed motherhood. By urging single young women not to use birth control (because they shouldn't have sex until they're married) and not to have abortions if they become pregnant, they play a large but so-far unrecognized role in the dramatic and sad rise in unwed motherhood in the U.S. [...] [P]reaching abstinence until marriage along with stigmatizing abortion is also a factor and should be credited as such.

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