Keith and runner.
The religious right's policies on sexual education, such as abstinence and opposition to condoms, has been an abject failure. Compare the statistics on teenage pregnancy and STDs for the USA with say Holland (or other countries with similar enlightened and sensible sex education policies).
The incidence of STDs in the USA is a significant multiple of the Holland incidence and a similar situation is the case with teenage pregnancies.
Failure to provide sensible sex education is to condemn a significantly higher percentage of a country's youth to ill health and sometimes an early death via AIDS or other STDs. The evidence is readily available. Just read it and understand it.
VP candidate Palin supports the current USA policies and her daughter may have avoided her predicament had that policy not been in place.
I do not criticise Bristol Palin for her choices. It is just a pity that she wasn't educated to avoid the trap. Sex is a normal aspect of life but for some strange reason some people, mainly on the religious right, treat it as sinful.