The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Bush's Sex Scandal

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Bush's Sex Scandal:

Other developed countries focus much more on contraception. The upshot is that while teenagers in the U.S. have about as much sexual activity as teenagers in Canada or Europe, Americans girls are four times as likely as German girls to become pregnant, almost five times as likely as French girls to have a baby, and more than seven times as likely as Dutch girls to have an abortion. Young Americans are five times as likely to have H.I.V. as young Germans, and teenagers' gonorrhea rate is 70 times higher in the U.S. than in the Netherlands or France.

But then, the people behind the plan don't care about any individuals affected, they care about presentation, perception, piety, and power. They want to avoid the "appearance" of evil. That is paramount. I'm beginning to think it's innate.

Oddly the group who promote such perfection-of-behavior ideas are the same people who assure us over and over again that nothing can be done, the earth is inherently evil.