Let's don't beat around the bush. Sarah Palin is the Republican nominee for President. This is a serious embarrassment to the party and to the nation because Sarah Palin represents the stone age of reproductive health and rights. Still, it's important to realize that, as backwards as Palin's views on contraception and sex education may seem to educated liberals, they represent the status quo of American reproductive policy. Ignorance-only sex education and the unavailability of contraception and abortion have made the United States' collective maternity ward the laughing stock of the developed world.
As UNICEF put it in their 2001 report "TEENAGE BIRTHS IN RICH NATIONS" [PDF]:
The United States teenage birth rate of 52.1 is the highest in the developed world – and about four times the European Union average.
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