Abstinence is proven not to work - studies show that in areas where abstinence is encouraged the rates of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections is the same if not higher than in other areas.

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Don't take the quiz! you end up on NARAL's email list. NARAL made the quiz, and from their answers you can see that to them reproductive health rights is synonymous with right to an abortion. Considering groups like Planned Parenthood are on tape counseling girls they believe to be younger than 15 not to tell them the age of the over 25 year old father so they don't have to report the statutory rape, we know that the abortion lobby doesn't really care about reproductive health.

Several commenters are worried about over-population declaring the human population as unsustainable at current levels. That may be your opinion, but there's not any real evidence for it.

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I totally agree with you, Rose V. The only time abortion should be considered is if the pregnancy is a direct threat to the mother's life such as in the case of ectopic pregnancy. As far as in rape/incest, those are horrible, horrible things to happen but I do not believe the child should be killed because of it. But let's be honest, the majority of abortions in this country are not from these situations.

I also throughly believe that pharmacists & other health care workers being allowed to refuse to do something that is against their conscience &/or religious beliefs. As a health care worker myself, I am becoming more & more concerned about what our country views as "health care."

In the case of abstinence, it is the only tried & true method of birth control. Abstinence training worked for the last several thousands of years, I don't understand why all of a sudden we can't expect people to exercise a little self-control & discipline. Yes, people still got pregnant out of wedlock back in the day, but not nearly to the extent it is today. As a 29 yr old virgin, I can vow that it isn't easy but it is doable. When I marry, my husband will know me in a way that no one else has ever known me & he will know that I am trustworthy & can resist temptation.

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Does Rose V. think that rape and incest survivors "made a mistake" when their attackers violated them? Does she think that this is a perfect world in which birth control methods never fail as long as you use them correctly? The fact is that the pill, condoms and everything else can fail occasionally, resulting in an accidental pregnancy despite using precautions properly. People who say that "abortion is never the answer" must be very lucky, and maybe have never found themselves the victim of a violent crime or stuck in an accidental preganancy because their contraceptive failed.

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Abortion is never the answer. I think this is part of the problem. So much in the us today that claims to give us freedoms is really a way for people to get out of the consequences of their actions. I have a very firm belief that a woman has a right to choose. She has every right to not have unprotected sex. If she is already pregnant, the time for choosing is gone already. Education is the way. But people also need to be held responsible for their actions. Anyone can have an abortion and will have learned nothing from their ordeal, because they got out of it. Killing babies is not the answer. Learn from your mistakes and learn about birth control before doing the deed. The fact that this quiz was sponsored by an abortion friendly group bothers me.

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I live in the uk and I am truly shocked at the answers to these questions. While our healthcare system is far from perfect it does seem to be catered more towards the patients rights to receive the services they require than the doctor's/pharmacists right to refuse them.
I believe education and access to birth control is the only way to control the population.
Abstinence has never really been an option as no matter how much guilt or fear is used to control teenagers their urges are hard for them to control at their age (and sometimes a lot older too, lol).

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I wish some of my answers were wrong....

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I got every answer right. This quiz is a sad commentary on the attitudes about sex that so many people have.

People need to know about sex and birth control. It is no wonder that there are so many unplanned pregnancies. Worse yet, there are far too many members of congress who are intent on keeping the number of uplanned pregnancies up. Getting pregnant is punishment for having sex.

The human population has pretty much reached unsustainable levels. We can reduce the human population with birth control, sterilization, education. We need far fewer births to replace those that have died.

There is absolutely NOTHING pro-life about human over population and we are there!

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I got all the answers right--but wish I hadn't. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. population was 180 million in 1960, is 307 million today, and will be 439 million by 2050. Many people attribute this insane increase to immigration--BUT according to the Population Reference Bureau, more than half of this ridiculous and irresponsible increase is due to fertility.

The U.S. birthrate is 14 per thousand, the U.S. deathrate is 8 per thousand. Since most of us would not want to increase the deathrate, we need to decrease the birthrate. Public policies must change, or the people who are responsible for these policies will also be responsible for turning the U.S. into a "less developed" country.

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