# Are conservatives or progressives more likely to buy their child birth control at age 13?

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**Created:** [September 1, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-conservatives-or-progressives-more-likely-to-buy-their-child-birth-control-at-age-13/919541 "2020-09-01T18:30:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-conservatives-or-progressives-more-likely-to-buy-their-child-birth-control-at-age-13/919541/10 "2020-09-01T18:36:21Z")

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**Kearsen1** replied to **Ann\_Hedonia** :

> [@Are Kellyanne and George Conway declaring a truce?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-kellyanne-and-george-conway-declaring-a-truce/918848/272):
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> > [@Are Kellyanne and George Conway declaring a truce?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-kellyanne-and-george-conway-declaring-a-truce/918848/271):
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> > > [@Are Kellyanne and George Conway declaring a truce?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-kellyanne-and-george-conway-declaring-a-truce/918848/249):
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> > > More evidence for things were better in the past.
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> > > But agreed, that shit needs to change. It it means that shitty parent’s get their parental rights stripped more, I’m good with that.
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> > Do you believe that actions count when you are teaching your children, or are words enough?  
> > Do you believe that setting a good example is a useful tool in the child-raising playbook? Is it strictly a family things, or do you believe that when our friends, neighbors and leaders exhibit good moral character that our children are more likely to grow up with those same values?
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> > If so — do you believe that marital commitment, sexual morality, honesty, candor, kindness, empathy, generosity, compassion and humility are desirable moral traits? If you do, how do you feel about the moral example that Donald Trump is setting for your children?
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> > Let say maybe you don’t. Maybe you are a believer in “every man for himself” . Maybe you think your own moral codes are strong enough that you don’t care if your own leaders have no decency. But if that’s the case, why don’t you care what anyone outside the circle of “you and yours” does?
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> Ok, first conflating Trump et al to conservatism isn’t a great thing to do (nor would I as a conservative relate to anything Trump does as a morally sound thing to teach my kids)
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> If you are going to use Trump as the beacon of conservatism, do I get to use the progressive version of Trump to use as the shining example of progressivism? Hell, maybe I have been using that in my mind.
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> But to my mind, 13 year olds have no business being sexually active, they are simply not ready for that type of responsibility.

Editor’s note: I believe **Ann\_Hedonia** was responding to a thread of comments which was not part of the birth control hijack. **Kearsen1** ’s response brought it into birth control territory.

~Max

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