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No. I understand wanting to teach teens about safe sex and contraceptives based on the assumption that teens will have sex anyway. The problem, as I see it, is making the information available without making it look like it's tacit encouragement of kids having sex before they should. If sex ed actually encourages teens to have sex, then that only contributes to the problem and these abortion numbers seem to suggest that's actually what's happening. I do totally agree with the part I bolded.No one needs to teach teens how to have sex. They have a way of figuring it out on their own. The problem is teaching teens to have sex safely, while at the same time telling them that abstinence is still a better option. That last message is lost in modern media that depicts casual sex as the norm.
Teaching them the truth about STDs helps, except that teens seem to have "oh, it won't happen to me" attitude toward any sort of risk, from AIDS to car crashes.
Meanwhile, values are taught in the home, and the values taught by unprepared teen parents are likely to result in more teen parents. It's a vicious circle.
And the question becomes how to discourage abortion, while at the same time discouraging people who can't raise children from having them. There are no simple answers to that one, are there?