Facts don’t faze the right in teen pregnancy debate.
In her letter “Political link to teen pregnancy unfounded,” Suzanne Santos argues absolutely nothing.
Not only did Santos acknowledge validity in Center for Disease Control and third-party studies relating to an alarmingly large number of teen pregnancies in “red” states, but she further hurt her case by stating the unfounded argument that she “promises” if one were to look more closely at individual communities, the fault is not a lack of education about safe sex but rather the persons’ “race, age, income, educational attainment, home ownership and employment status.”
So what Santos is saying is young blacks and Latinos with high school education are the ones to blame for teenage pregnancy? I guess it would be like the conservatives to blame blacks and immigrants, or as Santos would put it, “race.”
One has to wonder what amount of evidence would be required to enlighten the far right that education is the key to all success. Simply put, when you educate people sufficiently, they are much less likely to commit grave mistakes in life.
Then again, the trend of the political right ignoring facts is not a new phenomenon; after all, it was President Clinton who said, “I like that about the Republicans; the evidence does not faze them, they are not bothered at all by the facts.”
