Originally Posted by gekkogecko

Now, there's a bunch of politically-motivated bullshit. Abstinence has one of the worst failure rates for preventing pregnancy, because, well abstinence itself has a pretty high failure rate. And people who are taught abstinence-only typically don't resort to other birth-control methods, because they frequently don't know about them, and/or arent' prepared when abstinence fails. IOW, the "85% failure rate" when doing nothing to prevent pregnancy is frequently directly attributable to the abstinence-only crap pushed on the public by self-styled christain moralists who are grabbing more and more power as time goes by.