Occasionally you find a Republican politician who has gone very very far off the deep edge on an issue.
Here we have Paul, writing in his Ron Paul Survival Report, on the topic of teenage birth control.
Some readers may be aware of fringe stream politicians who rant about banning abortion first and contraception next. Now you don't have to hit the fringe stream. You can look at main stream Republican -- a contradiction in terms, I admit -- politicians.
This is by no means his most remarkable off the deep edge issue, but coming from an MD who delivered babies and knew a patient pool it is a bit remarkable.
The entire article is very short, only a few paragraphs, and is found in part below the fold.
The Norplant Solution
What do you do if an entire generation of young people, their consciences stripped of Western standards of morality, begin to imitate the rabbit population in their mating habits? In Baltimore, Maryland, the city fathers decided to make Norplant birth control available. That means that these people can hop from partner to partner without increasing the risk of pregnancy. What about the moral crisis? Norplant of course, does not address that and by making sex cost-free, it will actually increase the youth's desire for sex...
The criticism that a libertarian might have made is that the Norplant in question is apparently the Norplant that was being provided at taxpayer expense. No such criticism is seen here.
Baltimore has long been a progressive leader in the area of sex education...I guess that didn't work too well in an amoral community...Universal use of birth control will encourage promiscuous sex and increase the incidence of AIDS.