In response to Bonnie Erbe’s blog entry on Bristol Palin, Maggie Gallagher has it just right: Whatever the merits of abstinence-only sex education — it’s an empirical question, but every study I’ve seen on the matter was conducted by an organization biased one way or the other, with predictable results — it is fanciful to pretend that everyone who has an unintended pregnancy is ignorant of contraception. And the exploitation of this girl’s mistakes as a stick with which to beat her mother is unseemly.
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