Since I have been celibate for the past 17 months, I haven’t contracted one disease, haven’t gotten pregnant, haven’t been involved in any domestic violence or gotten my heart broken.

When I was sexually active I never contracted a disease and I was never involved in domestic violence.

As for getting your heart broken, since I’ve been celibate I’ve had my heart broken twice by two very close friends of mine. Having your heart broken is a risk you take in any sort of relationship. If you aren’t taking those kinds of risks in getting close to people, than I’m sorry for you.

As for the seat belt story, that still holds. You didn’t refute it you just changed the subject.

Seat belts don’t work all the time either, should we not wear these? Is it about being safe 100% of the time, which isn’t possible, btw – or is it about protecting yourself to the best of your ability?

Abstinence does work 100% of the time though doesn’t it? Since I have been celibate for the past 17 months, I haven’t contracted one disease, haven’t gotten pregnant, haven’t been involved in any domestic violence or gotten my heart broken. Because I haven’t been involved in one doomed sexual relationship after another, I have had more time to go to church, be of service to others which includes Silent No More, raise my son-you know generally have a life. So while condoms and seatbelts may not always work, abstinence always does.

(Two days later….)

I remain puzzled as to why many people who identify as pro-life promote abstinence-only programs that are shown to result in increased teen pregnancy — and as a result, I suspect, an increase in teen abortions.

Abstinence programs do work but pro-choicers have a warped definition of “work.” If one person gets pregnant while supposedly doing the whole abstinence thing, then it cannot work. We don’t hold liberal causes up to the same scrutiny that they hold us. For instance, AA has helped thousands even millions of people but it has also failed millions of people. Many people have left AA to resume drinking. Are we to assume AA cannot or does not work for anyone because not everyone succeeds with AA? I am sure there are those who have done the abstinence program but later on decided to have sex. But there is also a significant number that have put off sex. Speaking as a former tramp, I know of what I speak. As I stated earlier, I have been celibate for 17 months and I will continue to go down that road until I am married. I have done the liberal, feminist nonsense and all it got me was in a room going, “Hi my name is Dena and I am a sex addict.” All it got me was waiting in a room waiting to hear if I had just killed my son because I didn’t know whether I was HIV positive or not. All it got me was feeling suicidal after each anonymous encounter with a man. This is what sex without strings gets you. So excuse me if I don’t have time to pander to liberal presumptions and outright lies, I am too busy trying to save my very life because I know if I ever go back out there again, I am going to end up in a coffin because I won’t stop until it kills me. That is the way addiction works. So you guys continue to spread the lies and I will continue to fight them. You guys continue to kill children through abortion, AIDS and the 50 plus STDs and I will continue to warn them. You continue to delude yourself that sex without marriage is moral and okay and I will continue use my life’s lessons to save as many people as I can. This is not rhetoric, this is my life’s purpose and I take it quite seriously.

I am equally astonished by this logic (you reference in 77797). I would think that although christians recognize their own personal ethic of abstinence until marriage…it isn’t only the christians having abortions…it is people from all faith backgrounds and nonfaith backgrounds. Given this, I would think we would want to prevent them most completely by preventing teen pregnancies in the first place, no matter your personal stance on sex before marriage….if it prevents a potential abortion from taking place.

But hey, maybe not.

I remain puzzled as to why many people who identify as pro-life promote abstinence-only programs that are shown to result in increased teen pregnancy — and as a result, I suspect, an increase in teen abortions.