There is a wonderful short story by Lawrence Block called "Cleveland in my dreams" in which the main character sees a psychologist and tries to tell him about his dream. The psychologist doesn't care about the dream, the problem isn't the dream the problem is the fact that the patient is exhausted after the dream. The doctor cuts to the bone of the problem and solves it that way. The patient still has the dream but it doesn't affect his waking life anymore.
I thought about that when I saw a protest against an abortion clinic. Instead of protesting these clinics why don't these protesters look into ways to help prevent the pregnancy in the first place. And no, the abstinence doctrine doesn't work. Let these protesters focus on a small at risk group, young teen mothers.
I'm willing to bet that when the kids are more involved with school and after school activities then they have a smaller chance to get pregnant. If the teen doesn't have to be at home to watch the younger kids, and is instead at a school activity, do they have a smaller chance to be a pregnant teen?
Maybe instead of spending time marching around clinics verbally abusing kids we should figure out a way to prevent the problem in the first place.
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