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July 18, 2005
You’ve got to
hand it to NARAL. They really know how to get their point across.
NARAL Pro-Choice
Washington wants to make it clear. No ambiguous, vague, uncertain,
unintelligible, nebulous, amphibological message from NARAL.
Absolutely none!
Do you want to
know what the leading proponent of abortion thinks about healthy
sexual behavior? NARAL wants everyone to know! Screw Abstinence.
Just to make
sure you don’t miss it, they scream at the top of their voices.
Throw your hands up and say it loud: “Screw Abstinence!!!” They
tell us at the bottom of their e-mail flyer to let everyone know:
Print Out Flyer & Help Promote Screw Abstinence.
This is not just
political rhetoric and subtle behind-the-scenes lobbying. They are
throwing a party. They are raising money. And there is something for
everyone at NARAL’s funfest:
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A sex ed class
for adults performed by
Seattle
theatre’s hottest sketch comedy group
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Tips on Sexy
Sex by Sex-positive purveyors of adult toys
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A Screw Driver
drink ticket
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A Screw
Abstinence T-Shirt
If there is
anything good that comes from vulgarity in your face and over the top,
this must be it. We now know for sure and without a doubt, what NARAL
values and elevates as their ultimate ideal for healthy sexual
attitudes and behaviors.
For the past
thirty years parents and health experts have agonized over the high
rates of unwed teen pregnancy and the epidemic of sexually transmitted
diseases (STDs). Untold hours have been spent debating how to best
educate young people on healthy choices related to sex.
Abstinence…purity…chastity…modesty…concepts of self-control and
restraint have made a comeback. But it has been a hard fought
battle. At every turn, there are opponents to abstinence. Planned
Parenthood, the ACLU, and NARAL have worked hard to convince us
abstinence education won’t work.
Now, thanks to
NARAL, we know one of the major reasons abstinence education
struggles. It is mocked and ridiculed and rejected by the
National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League.
The finer points
of NARAL’s Screw Abstinence party are these.
They trivialize
the very essence of healthy choices based on self-restraint and the
medical realities of sexual behavior.
They flaunt the
outdated term “Safe Sex,” mutating it into “Safer Sex” without one
shred of proof that sex toys are harmless games in the hands of
promiscuous people. Safer sex? Safer than what?
They model for
adults over the age of 21 the foundations of mindless, medically
illiterate objections to abstinence education. NARAL doesn’t need a
reason to object. It’s enough to “Come, laugh, learn, socialize and
buck the system at NARAL Pro-Choice Washington’s Screw Abstinence
Party.”
And perhaps the
finest point of all in NARAL’s attack on the healthy attitudes toward
sex by
America’s
young people is this. When over twenty percent of children relying on
the promises of “safer sex” get pregnant this year, NARAL will be
there with Planned Parenthood and the ACLU to defend their right to
sneak to the nearest abortion clinic without parental consent.
If abstinence
education is challenged in its efforts to educate young people about
healthy sexual attitudes and behaviors, we finally have the answer…in
our faces…over the top…and without a doubt. Thanks to NARAL.
February 5, 2005
Sex Without Value
June 6, 2005
Planned Parenthood's War Against Choice
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