From Yahoo! News: "Texas leads U.S. in teen birth rate." When questioned about the state’s abstinence-based teachings versus comprehensive education, State Board of Education President Don McLeroy had this piece of wisdom: "The idea that just giving them a lot of information is going to solve it, I think, is kind of naive." Granted, informing hormonally-driven teenagers about condoms and such will not stop teen sex or pregnancy. But isn’t it more naive to tell these teenagers to not have sex at all, refusing to tell them even the basics about safe sex, knowing that teenagers have engaged in pre-marital sex since the beginning of mankind, and always will? 

Jennifer Leblanc