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What do you get when you cut Planned Parenthood funding?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by TigerVols, Feb 4, 2016.

  1. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    "If we just had tried some more leeches ..."
     
  2. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    dq, it is worth noting that the teen pregnancy rate is at an all-time low, down 51 percent from 1990-2010 according to this link.

    Trends in Teen Pregnancy and Childbearing - The Office of Adolescent Health

    That seems to line up with the timeframe of condom distribution in schools, beginning as a reaction not to pregnancies but to the HIV crisis. So there is pretty good evidence that it's working.
     
  3. old_tony

    old_tony Well-Known Member

    It's also worth noting that the teen pregnancy rate reached its all-time high when the left insisted "if it feels good, do it" because condoms and the pill fix everything.
     
  4. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    I thought this chart was telling, too:

    teenbirthratemap2011.jpg
     
  5. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Sure. But look at teen/unintended pregnancy rates among the poor in urban areas (e.g., NYC, Baltimore, etc.). They're a disaster. And those are exemplars of reproductive services being "accessible." And, for the record (and the moron caucus' characterizations notwithstanding), I am absolutely not against contraception being made widely available and cheap. It is widely available and cheap, Planned Parenthood or no.
     
  6. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    You would ...
     
  7. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Yup. It does a great job of pointing out the problem states like, for example, Texas.
     
  8. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    I'm enjoying your display of your skills as a social scientist here. It brings to mind the old bromide about an infinite number of chimpanzees typing away at an infinite number of typewriters. Soon, merely as a matter of chance, you're going to not draw a mistaken inference.
     
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  9. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    You're of course free to explain the "mistaken inference" to the extent you believe there is one, but, so far, you haven't. The "I'm a really smart math teacher, so everyone should take my word for it" crap doesn't fly.
     
  10. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    Tuition's not free, champ.
     
  11. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Let us know when you have an answer. Until then, you're just Old Tony with a slightly better vocabulary.
     
  12. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Teens have been getting pregnant for thousands of years. The difference now is that, thanks to the left, we're not shifting them to their "aunt's" for hundreds of miles away for multiple months- long visits.
     
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