I love it when conversations that Yosef and I have on road trips show up in that day’s Journal. This one was inspired by the following billboard: “Sex can wait. Your future can’t.” Now, aside from the actual logical issues with this pair of statements (I mean, unless they literally mean that, time being linear and directional, you are constantly approaching your future, and that, short of freezing time entirely, it will literally not wait for you, which I don’t think they mean), this argument has been shown to be pretty ineffective in dealing with teen pregnancy.
yb and I decided that a more fitting and accurate billboard would be simply this: “If you don’t believe in abortion, don’t have unprotected sex.” And then just let people work out the details for themselves.
ps: If you don’t want to read the whole article, here’s the piece that caught yb’s eye: “And many young people are in “the fog zone” in which their beliefs about pregnancy don’t match their behaviors”.
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