Thinking to Believe

The Guttmacher Institute released the latest data for teen (age 15-19) pregnancy and abortion rates (for the year 2011).  Teen abortion and pregnancy rates have dropped to their lowest point in 40 years.  Here’s a summary of the data:

• Pregnancies: 553,000 pregnancies (52.4 pregnancies p/ 1,000 teens – approximate 5%), which is 23% lower than 2008 (68.2 pregnancies p/ 1,000 teens). If we consider just 15-17 year old teens, the pregnancy rate is just 26.7.
• Births:3 births p/ 1,000 teens (down from 40.2 in 2008)
• Abortions:5 abortions per 1,000 teens (down from 18.1 in 2008). This is a 69% drop from the peak rate of 44.0 in 1988. The overall percentage of pregnancies that end in abortion dropped from 46% in 1985 to 31% in 2007, and remained the same in 2011.  So while the abortion rate dropped since 2007, the percentage of abortions is the same because the pregnancy rate has dropped since 2007.

This is welcome news!  You can read the full report here.

If you don’t agree with the progressive Left, then you don’t deserve an education or a career in social work.  A Christian man in his second year of studies for a degree in social work at Sheffield University in England was dismissed from the program because he quoted a Bible verse against homosex and same-sex marriage on Facebook.

Oh, the tolerance of the Left.  If you don’t agree with our moral point of view, we’ll exclude you.  Such hypocrites.

Just keep repeating what you’ve been told: “Homosexuality and same-sex marriage won’t affect you.”

This isn’t the first time something like this has happened.  See here and here.

Words matter.  Words shape how we view and feel about things.  How we describe sexually deviant behaviors can have a big impact on how society views that behavior.  Incest seems to be the latest sexual perversion that is vying for public acceptance.  Social scientists are not calling it incest, but rather “genetic sexual attraction.”  The similarity this has to “same-sex attraction” is obvious, and I would argue that this similarity is intentional, and political.  It’s clearly not an accurate description.  “Same-sex attraction” is an accurate, scientific description because these people are attracted to members of the same sex as themselves.  The same cannot be said of “genetic sexual attraction.”  One is not literally sexually attracted to someone’s genetic material.  They are sexually attracted to a close family member (parent, sibling).

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