[honeychile]

FYI, my fiance is a card-carrying Democrat, and has a major role in each year's March for Life. Let's leave politics out of an already inflammatory debate.

I completely agree with comprehensive sexual education. I went to a pilot school district, and we had co-ed sex ed from 5th through 11th grade. It was done on an age-appropriate method, and to this day, I have been able to teach my mother basic sexual/reproductive biology.

These classes included insertion of a diaphragm and using a condom, and were always taught by two teachers, one of each sex. The proof of its value is that I graduated with over 700 people, and there were exactly 2 pregnancies in my class.

No condoms or other birth control were handed out at my school, however, information on birth control clinics (where it would be obtained for free) was posted in several places in the school. In other words, we were taught that responsibility goes hand in hand with sex - if we were going to be sexually active, then we needed to do the responsible thing and go to a clinic first.

If classes such as those I had were more readily taught, I highly doubt that there would be so much debate.