With the growing controversy in America, I thought I ought to say something. But Dr. Crippen seems able to say it much better than I ever could:
We can all surely agree to try to reduce the abortion rate. And the best way to do that is to improve education about sex and contraception and to make such education a compulsory part of the school curriculum from an early age. The evidence from Holland, where the abortion rate is lower than in the UK and far lower than in the USA, supports this approach. For an explanation of why the demand for abortion is so high in the USA look no further than here in Blount County, Tenmessee.
It seems that in the USA many of the vehement “pro-lifers” are also vehemently against the provision of sex education and contraception for the young. Strange.