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Originally Posted by AngelsSix
If I remember correctly, it takes a man to get a woman pregnant, they cannot do it by themselves, being on board a ship has nothing to do with it, President Clinton damn sure had nothing to do with it. Women get pregnant because they have unprotected sex with men and that had been going on since the Earth came to be.
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If we cannot prevent men and women in units from having sex, and therefore from getting pregnant, then the only sure way that I can think of to prevent pregnancies is to send only all male or all female crews to sea.
We could require contraceptive use, but some refuse, some cheat, and all methods short of sterilization have failure rates.
Rather than argue whose fault it is, it might make more sense not to send mixed gender crews to sea. The argument that the Navy does not have enough male sailors to man their ships fails when you consider the number of replacements or empty billets that result from shipboard pregnancies.
You can UCMJ these kids all you like, but the fact of the matter is that given an available member of the opposite sex, young service members are going to seek an outlet for their sexual drive. IIRC, the policy in the Box has been rewritten several times after large numbers of service members were discovered to be having sex in theater.
I am not sure what the Navy policy is, but if I were King, I would personally require the both of the pregnant parties to remain at sea till their last trimester, and to be returned to sea to complete their cruise as soon as possible after delivery. That might remove the appeal of early return from the cruise as an attraction, and would minimize personnel turbulence.
Just my .02, YMMV.
TR