Sarah Palin loves the idea of teenagers learning how to use condoms at school?

She was against teaching condom use in schools before she was for them :

Palin appears to disagree with McCain on sex education - Los Angeles Times

Palin's statements date to her 2006 gubernatorial run. In July of that year, she completed a candidate questionnaire that asked, would she support funding for abstinence-until-marriage programs instead of "explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics and the distribution of contraceptives in schools?" Palin wrote, "

Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support."

But in August of that year, Palin was asked during a KTOO radio debate if "explicit" programs include those that discuss condoms. Palin said no and called discussions of condoms "relatively benign."

"Explicit means explicit," she said. "No, I'm pro-contraception, and I think kids who may not hear about it at home should hear about it in other avenues. So I am not anti-contraception. But, yeah, abstinence is another alternative that should be discussed with kids. I don't have a problem with that. That doesn't scare me, so it's something I would support also."

So now the Alaska governor is for teaching sex education ALONGSIDE sexual abstinence. Doesn't that go against the logic of an extremist right wing government's spending of $1 billion dollars in "abstinence-only" programs?

And by the way, Seema Mehta, the author of the LAT article quoted, notes that "abstinence-only" public health policies were put in place in 1996 as part of welfare reform. As in under the Bill Clinton administration.

Sure, the Gingrich led "Republican Revolution" was in full speed with it's apex hitting the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Yet still, it goes to show that even Democrats need to be smacked around for lapsing in their support of reproductive rights.

Now, isn't it telling that our Republican Fauxminist calls herself "pro-contraception" because she's for condom use? Yet there seems to be no evidence that she is in favor of teaching teenage girls how to use pharmaceutical contraception methods or even fertility awareness education? Let's not even go into emergency contraception or even abortion.

Yah.

Sarah Palin represents the interests of all U. S. women. 

Not.

 


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