God forbid we use science

[Jester]

For clarification, the issue came up again last night in the Democratic debates.

Full question and responses from John Edwards (irrelevant) and Barack Obama.

QUESTION: Hi. My name is Anne, and I work at a Planned
Parenthood in Pennsylvania.

My question is, we here at Planned Parenthood support
comprehensive sex education and I'd like to know if any of you as
candidates have talked to your children about sex and used medically
accurate and age-appropriate information?

COOPER: Senator Edwards?

EDWARDS: Well, Elizabeth and I have had sort of an unusual
experience for parents, because Elizabeth likes to say that was made a
member of AARP when she was pregnant with Jack, our last child.

EDWARDS: We have had four children. Our two youngest children
are now nine and seven. So we have been through the whole experience,
including kids who have grown up.

Yes, the answer is we have taught our younger children when they
were young how to look for the signs of wrong touching, any kind of
what would be sexual abuse, inappropriate touchng. And we have taught
our children as they got older, all -- I think, using medically
appropriate terms -- all that they needed to know to be properly
educated.

COOPER: Senator Obama, Mitt Romney has accused you this week of
saying that 5-year-old children should be getting sex education. Was
he right?

OBAMA: Ironically, this was actually a proposal that he himself
said he supported when he was running for governor of Massachusetts.

OBAMA: Apparently, he forgot.

(LAUGHTER)

And it makes the exact point that John made.

I've got a 9-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old daughter. And I
want them to know if somebody is doing something wrong to them,
encroaching on their privacy, that they should come talk to me or my
wife.

And we've had that conversation, but not every parent is going to
have that conversation with their child, and I think it's important
that every child does, to make sure that they're not subject to the
sexual predators.

Just in case anyone was still wondering what Obama meant by "age-appropriate sex education." He has once again emphasized, as he did previously in response to Mitt Romney's comments, that what he means is information to help children deal with sexual predators.

-Jester