Liberals have decided that birth control and climate change go hand-in-hand, and that distributing condoms will stop global warming.
Birth control could help combat climate change
Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Friday. More than 200 million women worldwide want contraceptives, but don’t have access to them, according to an editorial published in the British medical journal, Lancet. That results in 76 million unintended pregnancies every year.
If those women had access to free condoms or other birth control methods, that could slow rates of population growth, possibly easing the pressure on the environment, the editors say.
Let’s say for a second that global warming is actually real and that humans were doing so much damage to the environment that catastrophic disaster was, in fact, imminent. You would think that if the Left REALLY cared about stopping climate change they would be happy to help promote abstinence.…yeah right.
Well, let’s say (like, you know, the vast majority of the scientific community) that climate change is a real threat, and that population increase correlates with it.
That would be NO GROUNDS for promoting abstinence, because time and time again, abstinence-based sex-ed programmes DO NOT WORK in reducing rates of sexual activity. So why would anyone who wanted to reduce population growth opt for a programme that doesn’t work? That would be really dumb.
Yeah, to agree with EVERYONE ELSE, for an “all-science-for-realz” site, your global warming denialism is making that suspect.
Even if abstinence-until-married was a 100% accomplishible goal, the use of birth control within marriage can still help prevent women from having more children than they want or are prepared to raise.
But really, you lose all sorts of credibility if you start out dissing climate change science.
“Let’s say for a second that global warming is actually real…”
This statement alone tells me that you may want to do a bit more research on this topic.
The way this is written assumes that A) the women this article refers to have the same control over who they have sex with as the article’s authors and B) that people on the Left (don’t really know who that refers to, if you want to say the American Democratic Party, just say it) don’t believe abstinence works.
I’m not personally a “member” of the “Left” by anybody’s definition, being something of a Goldwater Republican, but I can tell the difference between believing that abstinence works, and believing that if the only birth control taught is abstinence, it will encourage abstinence. The first is obvious, the second laughable- sorry, I’ve read too much of the Old Testament to believe that.
Because abstinence only sex ed has been SO successful? Maybe those who disagree with giving contraceptives to people in developing countries should go to those developing countries and try promoting abstinence.
What about that study that showed states with a higher percentage of conservative religious beliefs also had higher rates of teenage pregnancy?
As a Christian, I believe that God’s Word requires all non-married persons to practice abstinence. Those engaging in intercourse outside a godly marriage engage in sin. God especially demands this for women, as He knows that sex can ruin our precious emotional and physical lives more so than men.
However, I don’t believe promoting abstinence in developing nations would reduce the birth rate. People in such nations tend to marry very young and most married couples don’t practice abstinence. After all, God created sex as a method to bring couples closer together and to provide pleasure to the male (and to produce offspring for the female).
Furthermore, people in developing nations do not practice Christianity and adhere to its virtues, so they would probably not hold to abstinence. In this case, condoms, although very rarely effective, provide a better ability to prevent pregnancy than pure chance does.
Even those women in developing nations, which often follow a law of the jungle, who do hold to God’s standards face a greatly increased risk of sexual assault compared to their sisters in developed nations, so birth control pills could help prevent pregnancies resulting from assault.
Of course, the most effective method of preventing unwanted pregnancy is to promote good virtues for women in developing nations and to teach them to preserve their purity for godly sex with their husbands. Men in developing nations would also stop assaulting women if they followed The Truth, because they would limit their sex to that with their wife.
However, the Holy Bible predicts that people will resist its Truth, so birth control might be the only practical option. We might as well prevent these women from becoming pregnant, lest the liberals raise taxes on us to fund them instead promoting God’s Morals.