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Entry: Freedom from shame? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/freedom_from_shame#32366 Post contents: I think what the clerk did was wrong and that was the wrong time for anyone outside of the girl's family to make her feel ashamed, though I agree with Ms. Rittelmeyer's point about so-called "shame culture." But it was the wrong time to make her feel ashamed because it would probably make her more likely to get an abortion. And the girl's statement that “We’re teenage girls, not the spawn of Satan, and we deserve just as much respect as a thirty-year old woman buying a pregnancy test.” would probably be true of the time when honor was the driving force that held Western society together, except that they didn't have such a thing as pregnancy tests and it was only okay if the girl was already married. Sent at: 2008 12 01