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I want to say that around here the question of where babies come from and what is puberty get answered in 5th grade or so.

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It was about the 4th grade for us, but by that point everyone knew it anyway.  The way I see it, the only way to counter bullshit and misconceptions about sex, puberty, pregnancy, etc. is to teach it before they start becoming widepread among kids.  I remember somewhere around the 2nd or 3rd grade, everybody knew where babies came from and the very basic purpose of sex.  Pushing sex education to starting at the 1st grade and making it mandatory for all students (no waivers to get them out of it) wouldn't "damage" anyone, but rather, help fight against ideas that pulling out during intercourse keeps a girl from getting pregnant and other stuff, as well as the fact that it ingrains such information (and the morals you teach them - remember that kids are less likely to question what they're taught than teenagers are) by the time they do hit that age.

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What might have been encouraging news for women was just the opposite — somehow McCain had managed to find a woman running mate even more conservative than he is on women's rights.

It was heartbreaking news, especially on the heels of such an inspiring week. Right now there is so much shameless rhetoric from the Republicans about breaking the glass ceiling, especially from McCain and his running mate. What good does it do to break a glass ceiling with a woman who wants government to control women's reproductive health? That isn't the world I want for my two daughters.

A day later, and I'm still having trouble expressing the depth of my anger about McCain's choice of a running mate. This shameless pandering to women — with a woman who doesn't trust other women to make their own decisions about childbearing — has really got me going.

My dear friends and supporters, the stakes in this election just got unbelievably higher. More than ever before, the November 4 election is the most important vote for women's rights of my generation. And our actions in the next eight weeks — yours, mine, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund's — have never been more critical. Believe me, I don't say that lightly. It's time to get to work — and hard.

If you can only do one thing, it should be to tell every woman you meet that McCain and Palin are the most anti-choice, anti-women pair imaginable. Don't stop at just telling your friends. You can bet that I'll be telling strangers in the checkout line at the grocery store, the women I see at the gym, parents at my kids' schools.

Women trust other women to tell them the straight truth — and the straight truth is that McCain and Palin would take us back to a time when women had absolutely no right to decide whether or not to have a child ... zero. It's been widely reported that Palin is against abortion even in the cases of rape and incest!

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Don't preach conservative values when you can't even do well for your kid. Funny how Palin doesn't want sex ed in schools and her daughter ends up fucking at a young age and has a kid.

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I want to say that around here the question of where babies come from and what is puberty get answered in 5th grade or so.

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I believe her daughter is the living proof that abstinence -only education does not really work...

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But she's marrying the father, shit, she is in no worse position than my parents and they did fine.

Would you rather the girl had an abortion?

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Κύριε ἐλέησον

Which is really worse to you, that a teen is pregnant or that she has an abortion?

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All men and women are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality.

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Actually this question should be more readiy addressed to a conservative:  

Which is really worse to you, that a teen is pregnant or that she has an abortion?

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While I am glad they are getting married, I also hope it is not another of those gunshot marriages. Those are sometimes unfair to the father as well.

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Good at least I know where you stand.  

While I am glad they are getting married, I also hope it is not another of those gunshot marriages. Those are sometimes unfair to the father as well.

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My parents had one. It seems to have worked, they hated each other at first but now they're getting old they realise its good not to be alone.

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Quote: from osmoticdespair at 10:30 pm on Sep. 2, 2008

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My parents had one. It seems to have worked, they hated each other at first but now they're getting old they realise its good not to be alone.

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Of course it does work. Many marriages have started this way. It does not mean it is fair.

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Quote: from The Modern Humorist at 12:33 pm on Sep. 1, 2008

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I'm just sick and tired of the unequal playing grounds. Everything the Democrats have done "privately", has been torn to the ground and tarnished her reputation.  

 But when Sarah Palin has a private family issue, everyone wants to give her privacy, and not get it involved in the election?  

 What the hell? Either private issues will be fair game for all, or they will be fair game for NONE.

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How often have these "private" issues included the children? This issue is not about anything Sarah Palin has done, it's about her 17 year old daughter.

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It is about Sarah Palin, through her daughter. I don't think anyone out there is calling Sarah Palin's daughter horrible names.

The problem here is that Sarah Palin condemns everyone else's morals, and then something like this happens to her, and then, they ask for "privacy".

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Sorry for my English. I know it can be bad sometimes =)