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From: jj@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Planned Parenthood, the wisdom issue
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Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 11:55:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 11:55:09 1985
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Frankly, I find both sides of this "should Planned Parenthood
give Moral ADVICE" debate stupid.  It seems to me that pre-marital
sex, adolescent sex, etc, are all easily lumpable under the heading
of "wisdom", i.e. is it WISE to behave in a given manner?

While I'd think it was absolutely idiotic to say to
a kid that "it's immoral to have premarital sex,
even if you don't believe in my God and teachings,
because I say so", I think it's entirely reasonable to
say "I think it's UNWISE, unless you consider the following: ..."
if the following include health, happiness, understanding of
consequences, the effects of sexual conduct on emotional
matters, and the like. (I'm NOT talking about scare tales,
folks, just about a two-way discussion concerning the effects
of sex on a relationship.)

Why is it that both the 'liberal' element and the 
'religious' element insist on making morality of
what is a simple question of wisdom?

Yours for free choice, without {deliberately imposed guilt,
harrassment, or enforcement of 'christian' moral codes upon
unbelievers}.

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