Luceat!

Well, the more ‘open-minded’ alternatives being pumped into the mushy brains of teens and pre-teens the country over don’t prove much better, according to Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse:

A poor cohabiting teenager using the Pill has a failure rate of 48.4%. You read that correctly: nearly half of poor cohabiting teenagers get pregnant during their first year using the Pill. If she kicked her boyfriend out of the house, or if she married him, her probability of pregnancy drops to 12.9%. At the other extreme, a middle-aged, middle-class married woman has a 3% chance of getting pregnant after a year on the Pill.

Over 70% of poor, cohabiting teenagers using condoms, will be pregnant within a year. By contrast, the middle-aged, middle-class married woman has a 6% chance of pregnancy after a year of condom use.

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With contraception, we can absolutely predict that some sexual encounters will result in pregnancy. The young, the poor and the unmarried are the most likely to experience a contraceptive failure. For these groups, pregnancy is not a rare accident, but highly likely. When the inevitable pregnancy occurs, guess who is ready to help solve her problem? That’s right: Planned Parenthood will sell her an abortion. The same people who teach sex education, which increases the demand for purchasing contraception, also sell the “solution” to contraceptive failure, which is abortion. Yet the federal government spends about $12 on contraceptive-related programs to every $1 spent on abstinence education.

You can read the rest of the piece here, and visit the author’s site here. Dr. Morse presents an excellent “Follow the money, stupid!” indictment of PP, especially in the comparison to Big Tobacco.

As Kelly wrote earlier this week, there’s a great divide between authentic education and indoctrination. In due charity, I must believe that most educators aren’t willfully selling out the young in their charge. They might rightly be accused of trying to fashion students’ minds to fit the secularist mold, but accusations of outright exploitation ought to be directed at those whose pockets are lined (directly and indirectly) by the sexual proclivities of misguided youth.