At the request of Planned Parenthood, and under the direction of my conscience, I sent the following message to my representatives in Congress and Senator Bill Frist:
"Dear Senator Frist:
"The world is full of problems, and too many people try to treat all of them with placebos.
"Abstinence-only education has been shown to result in more teenagers engaging in unprotected sex, more teenage pregnancies and a faster spread of STDs.
"It simply doesn't work.
"And big fat lies about sterility, cancer, &c. are not going to help either. Haven't you ever had a conversation with a smart-aleck seventh-grader who thinks it's the coolest thing in the world to catch you in a small error of fact, and who refuses to believe anything else you say for the rest of the day? We know kids are like that, so why are we going out of our way to deliberately tell them lies, lies which they will be quick to unmask with a simple Internet search?
"Abstinence-only (anti-)sex education seems like a good idea at frist glance, but it's been years now, and it's high time for a second glance. Please support the call for investigation of this failed, fraudulent program."
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I only just noticed the typo in the last paragraph -- honestly, Senator, it was an accident!
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