It’s the Pitts
Published by anonymous July 8th, 2008 in AbstinenceLeonard Pitts has gone too far in his ‘From the Left’ column Sunday, June 29th. The Bush administration has been blamed for much, but when it comes to NOT using our taxpayer dollars to fund contraceptives and abortions (which is murder), I applaud Mr. Bush.
In Leonard Pitts’ mean-spirited column, he intimates that abstinence-only education is responsible for the 17 teen pregnancies in Massachussets. He also wrongly states that abstinence-only education can’t mention contraceptives - it can and does, but does not condone the use because there obviously is only one sure way to prevent STD’s, unwanted pregnancies or abortion, and that is abstinence-only.
Recently, an AP story about the growing number of states abolishing federal funding for Title V programs (Virginia is one) have turned a blind eye to the needs of America’s young people. Massachussets rejected the funds and watched pregnancy rates quadruple in one year at Gloucester High School. You see, Mr. Leonard Pitts, it really wasn’t due to the Bush administration at all.
Furthermore, this report states that faced with a culture saturated in promiscuity and STD’s, teenagers need to be equipped with the skills that abstinence education offers now more than ever. It’s time for politicians to put the teen in need of this programming first, so that they can successfully build healty relationships, refrain from sexual acitvity, aspire to marriage, and protect their health.
Shame on you, Mr. Leonard Pitts, and thank you, Mr. Bush