re: #420 reine.de.tout

Many people may think an unwanted pregnancy is “punishment” for immoral behavior, but it isn’t, it is simply nature taking its course.

An unwanted pregnancy will NOT necessarily feel like punishment to a teen, however, if parents are supportive enough, and those supportive parents are ones who would never ever say anything along the lines of “punished with a baby”.

Our daughter was pregnant at 15; aside from the morality of it, her behavior was incredibly stupid. However, any “immorality” was in the behavior leading to the pregnancy; the mere fact of being pregnant is not immoral.

I 100% agree. The problem is, some believe they should not give bother with STD prevention because STD’s and even pregnancy are their best sales tool for abstinence training. BHO should have said burdened, not punished with a baby. Now that I wrote that, some might object to burdened too.