Noting that more than half of the 40,000 teen pregnancies last year ended in abortion, London’s Daily Mail reports:
The teenage pregnancy strategy, which has cost taxpayers more than £300million, was meant to halve the number of conceptions among girls under 18 in England between 1998 and 2010.
Ministers have tried to slash teenage pregnancies by freely handing out contraceptives and expanding sex education.
But the fall in pregnancy rates has not met Government targets, and in 2007 the rate actually rose.
Teenage pregnancy rates are now higher than they were in 1995. Pregnancies among girls under 16 – below the age of consent – are also at the highest level since 1998.
This begs the question: When are people going to realize that, regardless if one believes in a personal, Creator God, our efforts at social engineering do not work? Free from political or sociological agenda, it would seem to me that, as a society (and not just our English cousins), we should be encouraging marriage and family, which accepts the sex drive as a given, and provides it a proper context for expression, rather than trying to re-engineer it.
The Mail also notes that more than 200,000 abortions were performed in England and Wales last year. That’s nearly a quarter of a million people.
You don’t have to believe that life begins at conception, as I do, to lament these statistics.
