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  • Palin's Choice

    I love the thought of women ascending to high office. While women haven't hit the executive office yet, many fine and talented woman have been in the Senate, Congress, and cabinet positions for decades. As a child of the 70s I myself am abundantly gifted with the benefits of the 70s woman's movement. But the thing that bothers me about Sara ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by kgcobb on September 3, 2008

  • Have your Cake and Eat it Too

    Of the many problems plaguing America, this is one which I have the least sympathy and harshest judgement towards America. Abortion? Teen sex? Abstinence? Viagra? You decriminalized all sex outside of marriage. You made all sex a public choice. You virtually removed all moral, religious, and ethical standards surrounding sex, except consent. ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Usama2 on January 25, 2008

  • Birth Control for 12 year olds...

    Here’s a question: If a 12-year-old gets a prescription for the pill so she can have sex with her 17-year-old boyfriend, is the school contributing to statutory rape? No one uses birth control to have sex. It's used to do what the name implies: control birth. Kids are going to have sex whether you like it or not, pill or no pill. Given that, ...
    Posted to XX Factor by sephira on October 22, 2007

  • Pre-Teen Birth Control

    There's a lot of interesting points here, but the most interesting factual ones will probably never be discussed because of the hysterical ideological posturing that's going to bury any commonsensical debate. Like, the idea of an age of consent being a relative historical innovation (the date for the UK for instance is 1898, I think, at which the ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Copito on October 22, 2007