The low-down is this: The GOP sucks at preventing abortion because they are using it as a distraction tactic – distracting Pro-Lifers by using their emotionally overwhelming love for the babies.

Healthcare REALLY prevents abortion. It encourages women to keep from getting pregnant and it encourages women to carry the baby to term for adoption. So far it’s prevented 9 million abortions. Think about it.

Here’s more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zack-exley/will-the-real-pro-life-pa_b_119146.html

Perhaps if we gave up the “extremes” and met in the middle we might find some success.

How bout telling kids the truth? Giving information rather than withholding it is the most effective way to go.

Waking up to the world our teenagers actually live in instead of wishing for the one we wish they had would be a better way to go.

The current curriculum that’s being taught here is a joke. It’s not only negative about condom use, it is dangerously naive. These kids are talking about sex in a way we never imagined and the curriculum isn’t addressing any of their very sophisticated issues – anal sex, what to do if someone tapes you having sex with his buddy and posts it on the Internet, what’s the difference between coercion and respect.

We need to let go of our shoulds and accept responsibility for the effect.

Abstinence only is a good intention. Good intentions pave the way to Hell.

We need to combine that good intention with more effective methodology and the bold abrasive truth to really reduce teen sex, STDs, teen pregnancy, abortion, teen domestic violence, and date rape.

There is one plan before congress right now where it is still paid for by the employee and employer (but not tied together in a small pool) as well as the current taxes we already pay for SCHIPS, Medicaire, Medicaid, Social Security.

The difference is that it forces insurance companies to give everyone an affordable price without allowing them to choose not to insure or cover someone who is sick or has a pre-existing condition.

The government acts only as an administrator, but utilizes private insurance companies and private hospitals. A fully Capitalist system with less fraud.

The plan SAVES the taxpayer over $1 TRILLION dollars rather than costing more as you assume.

More details here: http://www.blogfabulous.com/healthy-americans-act/

People aren’t getting married until their late 20s and into their late 30s – are you really expecting all of them to abstain? That’s so never going to happen.

Bunches of people are divorced and have already lost their “virginity” but don’t want to get married again. They aren’t about to adopt abstinence as a lifestyle either.

Not saying you aren’t right about it being 100% effective – just saying it’s not a realistic solution as much as a moral judgement.

I’m also suggesting that many women
Do work fulltime because of the insurance benefits and studies show they would seek fewer hours to spend more time with their children.

I am also suggesting that if women are getting their insurance via a husband’s job then they, and their children are more likely to qualify for welfare programs if they divorce (odds are one in two) or become widowed.

If we give women access to insurance – without being tied to their husbands – we do reduce the number of people relying on public assistance for their healthcare.

Lots of women/mothers would be able to just buy it with their 20-30 hour work week.

No one is a socialist. We’re just tired of getting screwed by the insurance companies.

Universal health care is a private system with private insurance Companies. Which is completely capitalist.