[Fruit Pie Jones]

Originally posted by BeefontheBone@Sep 7 2005, 06:38 PM
Personally I'm in favour of teaching contraception and safe sex rather than abstinence (the figures from many american studies incontavertably prove that teaching exclusively abstinence leads to increased rates of pregnancy and STDs among teenagers)

I think the problem there is that those figures don't really reflect the exclusive teaching of abstinence. In those cases, abstinence is being taught by a small number of authority figures with whom the "students" (the subjects of the studies) come into contact, whereas the exact opposite of abstinence is being taught by television, movies, print advertising, the majority of their peers, and just about everyone and everything else. So which message is more likely to be absorbed?

Originally posted by BeefontheBone@Sep 7 2005, 06:38 PM
If a zygote is a human life it can only be said to be one in potentia since there's no way to guarantee its survival, so by extension every sperm and egg in the body is equally a life in potentia, in which case any menstrual cycle in which you are not impregnated and every ejaculation outside a vagina can be considered as murder (mass murder in the latter case)

I don't think that follows, because neither an egg nor a sperm can ever become a full-grown human being on its own.