Originally posted by lasersailor184
No. Abstinence is the ultimate tool. I believe that teaching about contraception really early makes it seem like it's ok to randomly have sex.
Unless you're talking about forever abstinence like becoming a nun, there's going to be a time when - in order to own up to her
responsibility - a woman needs to have a thorough understanding of the options available to her if she doesn't wish to have a child. Surely you would like to avoid an unwanted pregnancy even in wedlock by ensuring that the woman has been educated in the use of contraception and is empowered to share in the decision?
If your belief is that you raise a girl to be abstinent until mariage, never informing her of proper use of contraception, and then after mariage she should not use contraception because it really shouldn't be her choice whether to get pregnant (ala the Catholic church), then you are absolving her of ALL reproductive responsibility and can not claim that she's shucking it if she later decides she'd rather not have the child.
I respect anyone who is anti-abortion based on rational humanitarian grounds.
Anyone who is anti-abortion that is also anti- sex-ed, anti-birth control, anti-emergency contraception, and anti- woman's right to decide if she want's to be pregnant in wedlock is a hypocrite who is not very far removed from those who stone women to death for adultery.