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much clapping for them.

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Absolutely!

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Plus STDs. Rhythm isn’t going to prevent them.

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Ah, ah, ah, but you see, some contraceptives prevent pregnancy by preventing fertilized eggs from attaching to the uterine wall, which is totally an abortion. Because that fertilized egg is exactly the same thing as a fully formed and birthed baby. Therefore, all contraceptives are bad.

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Yeah, that'll work.

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This doesn't really matter, because women should always have access to birth control for any reason, but a lot of us take BC for reasons other than contraception. For example, I'm asexual and I think sex is gross and I never want to have it, but I'm on birth control so I don't bleed to death due to my malfunctioning ovaries.

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Teenage sluts who DO IT (have sex) deserve to be punished with pregnancy, serve'm right, but it (the pregnancy) is a wonderful thing, a miracle handmade by God, at one and the same time. Absolutely no cognitive dissonance here, folks, how can you have cognitive dissonance if you can't say it, spell it, conceive of it (I made a pregnancy joke), or even look it up in a dictionary?

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She would have made 9 times what Trump gave her.

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I was thinking I could offer them some tips in Rick-Rack gluing.

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Maybe they could sell kits.

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Maybe even from starships... pew, pew, pew... in the nutses. True universal birth control.

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Bingo. Access to contraception is the biggest factor, followed by comprehensive sex ed. But, there's also speculation that MTV's 16 and Pregnant had an impact (because it showed the unglamorous reality of being a teen parent) and that teens are just having less sex these days, possibly because they're on their phones all the time instead. Which seems a little sad to me, but I guess there's some benefit there.

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That's different. Blame Hillary's emails.

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Or absenteeism.

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You mean a pile of oily rags big enough to combust spontaneously? I'd go for that, with or without votes.

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Instead of romanticizing it like they used to do. Also those baby robot dolls that cry and need changed are great. Education is a wonderful thing.

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