Web Letters: Opportunities in Abstinence Training

By Barbara Ehrenreich

August 1, 2007

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  • I, for one, would like to see this challenged in court. Just the thought of reading a Scalia or Thomas rant about how the Founders and Framers explicitly meant for abstinence training to be one fabric in the quilt of our nation makes me giddy. Why, Thomas Jefferson alone provides the counter-punch...

    Nick Schreiter

    Appleton, WI

    08/02/2007 @ 12:03pm


  • As a government program, abstinence certainly might act as a supplement to Social Security or Medicare. However, your rejection of waffles, pasta, syrup and tomato sauce suggests that you lack the spirit of adventure.

    Pervis J. Casey

    Riverside, CA

    08/01/2007 @ 5:07pm


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