So let's stop letting them hide behind our uteruses. All these rules and all these laws that are curbing welfare and in terms of medicare. If any of you in this room wanted to get an abortion, you might have to do without a new coat this winter, but you could get it. And if we are going to try to make a difference, we have got to be the power brokers for the powerless. We spend 14 per cent of our gross domestic product on health care.
People say, well let the parents teach it.
But the parents don't know how to teach it. Forty-five per cent of our fifth and sixth graders say that there is more fat in watermelon than there is in cheese. Well somebody needs to teach them something about sex. The crowd rose once again to its feet to applaud. When you have the highest teenage birth rate, pregnancy rate, and abortion rate in the industrialized world, we need to prevent unplanned pregnancy.