No place for religion in public policy

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One result of unprotected sex besides the one million abortions/yr:

from the CDC-2006

"Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) remain a major public health challenge in the United States. While substantial progress has been made in preventing, diagnosing, and treating certain S-TDs in recent years, CDC estimates that approximately 19 million new infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.1 In addition to the physical and psychological consequences of STDs, these diseases also exact a tremendous economic toll. Direct medical costs as-sociated with STDs in the United States are estimated at up to $14.7 billion annually in 2006 dollars."

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Yeal9 makes me grateful for the wheel on my mouse. I can scroll past his verbal diarrhea with little effort.

One has to wonder, does he get some kind of sexual pleasure from this, is it some kind of brown shower for him?

Mr. Flynn, we are humans ... give you ideology to yourself.

Mr. Flynn, please consider familiarizing yourself with secular arguments against abortion. Yeal9, please consider not spamming the comments section of every post on this subject with the same long comment.

Obviously, a perfect birth control barrier system does not exist. Time to develop one!

In the meantime, monomasturbation or mutual masturbation are highly recommended for heterosexuals who need a contraceptive.

Abstinence is another best-solution but obviously the sex drive vitiates this option although being biological would it not be able to develop a drug to temporarily eliminate said drive? Planned Parenthood should make the development of such a drug a high priority.

And as noted previously:

So why do the epidemics of abortion and STDs continue:

From the Guttmacher Institute:

FIRST-YEAR CON-TRACEPTIVE FAILURE RATES

Percentage of women experiencing an unplanned pregnancy
Method Typical
Pill (combined) 8.7
Tubal sterilization 0.7
Male condom 17.4
Vasectomy 0.2
Periodic abstinence 25.3
Calendar 9.0
Ovulation Method 3.0
Sympto-thermal 2.0
Post-ovulation 1.0
No method 85.0"
(Abstinence) 0
(Masturbation) 0

The failure of the Pill as noted above results in one million unplanned pregnancies every year because women basically fail to take it once a day as prescribed. Is there a literacy problem that Planned Parenthood failed to recognize?

The failure of the male condom results in another one million unplanned pregnancies every year basically because many men, as per Guttmacher, fail to use them even though they have them in their pockets or billfolds.

Then there are these additional facts:
from the CDC-2006

"Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) remain a major public health challenge in the United States. While substantial progress has been made in preventing, diagnosing, and treating certain S-TDs in recent years, CDC estimates that approximately 19 million new infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.1 In addition to the physical and psychological consequences of STDs, these diseases also exact a tremendous economic toll. Direct medical costs as-sociated with STDs in the United States are estimated at up to $14.7 billion annually in 2006 dollars."

and

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/20/yes-oral-sex-is-sex-and-it-can-boost-cancer-risk/?npt=NP1

"Yes, oral sex is sex, and it can boost cancer risk-

Here's a crucial message for teens: Oral sex carries many of the same risks as vaginal sex, including human papilloma virus, or HPV. And HPV may now be overtaking tobacco as the leading cause of oral cancers in America in people under age 50.

"Adolescents don’t think oral sex is something to worry about," said Bonnie Halpern-Felsher professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. "They view it as a way to have intimacy without having 'sex.'"

Obviously, Planned Parenthood, parents, sexually active couples and the educational system have failed miserably on many fronts.

@Yeal9 - And by what measure exactly are you saying: "Obviously, Planned Parenthood, parents and the educational system have failed miserably on many fronts"? Do you have any data showing that any other programs would have done better? Abstinence-only programs don't work: see here http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/article/abstinence_only_failure_latest_research_shows for more information. Since you have absolutely no idea what the unintended pregnancy and STD statistics would be in the absence of those programs, you simply cannot call them a failure.

Once again:

Considering the abortion and STD epidemics (one million and 19 million cases per year) in this country alone, Planned Parenthood, parents, sexually active couples, and the educational systems have failed miserably.

You should definitely lose hope, Mr. Flynn. Your ideas are just a sad leftover from the days of hippies and such.

The pro-abortion crowds are diminishing, being replaced by a generation that has once again embraced reason and morality. We'll let you stay as a historical oddity.

"Too few voices argue that since the capacity for personhood does not exist until the infant brain begins some internal wiring well after birth, the only justifications for imagining that abortion is murder flow solely from personal metaphysics or religious doctrine. Too few voices argue that in a secular society, personal metaphysics and religious doctrine are properly off-limits as drivers of public policy."
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The difficulty I have with the above is that Mr. Flynn seems to ignore the fact that conception is integral to the creation of each and every human life. Without conception, there would be no human beings.

The reality that Mr. Flynn seems to dismiss out of hand is that at the moment of conception a unique human life is created that has everything it needs to continue in existence, apart from natural causes or a willful act of abortion that brings an end to that life.

This is a typical "keep your religion out of public policy" tirade. So, people like Martin Luther King, Jim Wallis, Gene Robinson, and others should just shut up and stop bringing their religion into the public forum? Or would Tom Flynn only exclude people of faith with whom he disagrees.

The law is the way in which a society determines what is right and what is wrong. This is based upon morality. Since religious people base their right/wrong choices on their faith, Tom Flynn would exclude every person of faith from public policy discussions. This is semi-marxist (religion is the opiate of the people) because it would mean only secular humanists/atheists would be allowed to govern, excluding the vast majority of citizens.

Most folks seem to forget the Margaret Sanger created Planned Parenthood as a way to get rid of black babies and reduce the numbers of blacks. So the question is, how well has that worked? The answer is, very well.

"the capacity for personhood does not exist until the infant brain begins some internal wiring well after birth"

If you argument is that abortion is a moral choice until "personhood" does your quote above indicate that you believe it a moral choice to terminate the life of a child after birth? How about where injury or disability prevents the formation of the "wiring" you deem necessary for personhood? Can we morally end the life of all people with developmental disability or catastrophic brain injury? Peter Singer and other utilitarians would agree with you. So would supporters of eugenics. I tremble at cold, sinister perfection of the world you seem to desire.

SIRr, MAMm;

There is such a 'VOGUE' as chasing 'FAITH' & or having 'BELIEF', but none of Them Have "religion" in the [REAL] sense of RELiGION.

ALL, EVERY & ANY Religion is INNATE. It cannot be Philosophically explained in Written-Form! Only Felt. And not with fingers either.

Example: Pointingt to self as "CHRISTIAN" (Islamian, Jewian, Moronian, Hindian, Pre-Apocalyptalian..) is a "Belief' & is Having a form of 'Faith' via Rabbi JESUS the Christ et al. But it's still nay/No/Not YE & YO's "RELiGION"!

TRUTH (opposite MYTH): No Faith Today, can claim & have a "MONO-THEO", or "MONO-DEITY/DIOS" God(s) religion.

FACT (Reality); ALL ABRAHAMIC+ Branches & ALL VEDIC+ Branch/SYSTEM(s) as Business's; Are POLY-THEO with MULTI-GOD(d) & or GODDESSES; NO-MONO, ZERO-ONE GOD!

This Realization (that No One can Claim RELIGION outside of Themselves & there's no such thing as Mono-Theo Religion) will prevail against All Pre-Apocalyptarian thinkers who think they have [APOCALYPTIC] real RELIGION; when in reality they only have false'Faith in a Belief' system or 'belief in a Faith' [man-made-SYSTEMs]. And

Because EVERYONE BELIEVES IN HISTORY (our JURY): ATHEISM is a 'Belief' or a 'Faith'. But in Essence Atheism is nay/not/No neither a RELIGION. and

Because the Holyi "IT" thing also begins with YE/Yo and eventually Ends (happy or Sad) within each US All, THAT

Likewise, SECULARANITY is Also a Belief & a Faith. Still, not RELIGION. Yet it can definitely be said that 'Secularanity' , like Christianity or Jewishanity, Islamicanity, Mormonanity, Hinduanity, Buddhistanity et al is like-A-RELIGION too.

So, now SINCE The RELIGION of 'The-People' or of the STATE aka "The-Public", is SECULARANITY that

CHURCH(s) Must Stay the HAEL-OUT of SECULAR-Public Business and in many Private-Athiests Corners Too!

When will they learn to Stop promoting, enforcing & chasing TAUTOLOGY, and Wake-Up?

They (Religio Orgs/Gangs) need to Loose their TAX-EXEMPTIONS status's in sweet sweet U.S. of A.'s. Now!. They have Too much Money and Too Much Time on their gods forsaken souls!

They (Religionist, Orgs-Constituency) within America (CHURCH's, Church-University's, Church Hospitals, Church Institutions etc.) ALL (No Exceptions) must be dealt with & treated as COMMUNIST(s) agents & ENEMY's Of (OUR) 50+ SECULAR-STATE(s) USA! Thus

Conspire, always Ventriloquies'ng To undermind/Subvert(OUR) holyi SECULAR-GOVERNMENT of United-States of AMERICA & while at it, Steal our $ 12,000,0000,0000,0000 Trillion Dollar ECONOMY, via take-over of our Secular-GOVERNMENT on CHEAP ELECTION FUNDS. i.e., see

CITIZENS UNITED vs. F.E.C. at

http://clcblog.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=411:independent-spending-who-are-we-kidding-1-24-11

Excerpt: "INDEPENDENT SPENDING? WHO ARE WE KIDDING?" Last month Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) “paid a personal visit” to Tom Donohue, the President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

BE-Careful of the NICOLAITAN(s)!

So why do the epidemics of abortion and STDs continue:

From the Guttmacher Institute:

FIRST-YEAR CON-TRACEPTIVE FAILURE RATES

Percentage of women experiencing an unplanned pregnancy

Method Typical

Pill (combined) 8.7
Tubal sterilization 0.7
Male condom 17.4
Vasectomy 0.2

Periodic abstinence 25.3
Calendar 9.0
Ovulation Method 3.0
Sympto-thermal 2.0
Post-ovulation 1.0

No method 85.0"

(Abstinence) 0

(Masturbation) 0

The failure of the Pill as noted above results in one million unplanned pregnancies every year because women basically fail to take it once a day as prescribed. Is there a literacy problem that Planned Parenthood failed to recognize?

The failure of the male condom results in another one million unplanned pregnancies every year basically because many men, as per Guttmacher, fail to use them even though they have them in their pockets or billfolds.

Then there are these additional facts:

from the CDC-2006

"Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) remain a major public health challenge in the United States. While substantial progress has been made in preventing, diagnosing, and treating certain S-TDs in recent years, CDC estimates that approximately 19 million new infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24.1 In addition to the physical and psychological consequences of STDs, these diseases also exact a tremendous economic toll. Direct medical costs as-sociated with STDs in the United States are estimated at up to $14.7 billion annually in 2006 dollars."

and

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/20/yes-oral-sex-is-sex-and-it-can-boost-cancer-risk/?npt=NP1

"Yes, oral sex is sex, and it can boost cancer risk-

Here's a crucial message for teens: Oral sex carries many of the same risks as vaginal sex, including human papilloma virus, or HPV. And HPV may now be overtaking tobacco as the leading cause of oral cancers in America in people under age 50.

"Adolescents don’t think oral sex is something to worry about," said Bonnie Halpern-Felsher professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. "They view it as a way to have intimacy without having 'sex.'"

Obviously, Planned Parenthood, parents and the educational system have failed miserably on many fronts.