Premarital Sex Quotes
Carter was asked how he and Mrs. Carter would feel if their daughter Amy had a premarital affair. As he later explained to an audience of Democrats:
In the programs she is describing, young people make virginity pledges. However when research is done on these programs, it turns out that about half of the youngsters that take the virginity pledges engage in sex within the next 5 years—the same percentage of young people who do not take any pledges or participate in programs to delay premarital sex. However, taking a counterculture approach for what 50 years ago was the mainstream culture shows the extensive cultural change that America has made.
A Woman’s Concern like many other anti-abortion groups was also morally opposed to birth control of all kinds except celibacy or the “rhythm method” which is not particularly effective. He was a strong opponent of teaching about birth control by means other than pre-marital celibacy, which has been shown not to work for the majority of teens, He was appointed by the George W. Bush administration after vigorous lobbying by some of the extreme right wing religious groups who wanted birth control such as pills, IUDs or condoms to be made illegal. These proposals did not get much public support as the vast majority of Americans including a majority of Catholics use birth control methods that this man would criminalize. His claims about the negative effects of birth control had no scientific bases whatsoever. As a physician, he himself had been warned by the Medical Association for the improper practice of medicine. He had to resign his government position.
