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Re: ADMINISTRATION PROMOTING ABSTINENCE From: Joanne Bulley, MD (jbulley@cheshire.net) Tue Jul 31 22:39:44 2001 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Zach Newton: "Re: ADMINISTRATION PROMOTING ABSTINENCE" Previous message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Cost pressures force many doctors to rethink practice of medicine" In reply to: Robert J Woolley: "Re: ADMINISTRATION PROMOTING ABSTINENCE" Next in thread: Chris: "Re: ADMINISTRATION PROMOTING ABSTINENCE" Bob At this point in US history we are not in a Libertarian Society - and I don't think we are suddenly going to stop funding either Aid to Dependent Children - or the War machine/Pentagon. So - what can we do... Many studies have good evidence that when the educational level of a society is raised - the rate of childbirth spontaneously declines. This is the background I have - and is the reason behind my practice of education, education, education. With education and empowerment of the individual to make educated decisions - they mostly choose to not procreate indiscriminately. So for me, in my practice, I will continue to educate. I will also continue to encourage the society I live in to not restrict access to options for family planning. Joanne At Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Robert J Woolley wrote: > >> We happen to be in a society that has chosen to have government and >> insurance involvement with a lot of this stuff. It is my opinion that >> we need reliable and accessible contraceptive measures available. It is >> less expensive to ALL of us if we can diminish the number of unintended >> pregnancies - as well as other consequences of sexual intercourse. > >Well, that is only if you accept that we should all be paying for the >consequences of one person's decisions and actions. I don't, of >course. The most obvious way to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies >is to withdraw all governmental support from the women and children >involved. It is a universal law of economics that when you pay less for >something, you will get less of it; when you pay more for a thing, you >will get more of it. So if you're genuinely interested in getting >teenagers to have less sex or more reliably use means not to get pregnant >when they do, you should favor getting rid of all governmental support of >the people involved. > >> I don't think our government should be promoting and abstinence is the >> only thing you can discuss and get paid for poilcy. We can't force the > >Why should the government be promoting sexual activity *or* abstinence, or >any form of contraception over another? Why is it any of the government's >business any way you look at it? -- Joanne Bulley, MD Keene, NH, USA Next message: Zach Newton: "Re: ADMINISTRATION PROMOTING ABSTINENCE" Previous message: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Cost pressures force many doctors to rethink practice of medicine" In reply to: Robert J Woolley: "Re: ADMINISTRATION PROMOTING ABSTINENCE" Next in thread: Chris: "Re: ADMINISTRATION PROMOTING ABSTINENCE"

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