Finally! People (magazines) Admit Actions Have Consequences!

Finally, a prominent secular magazine highlights real life.
When I saw People Magazine's most recent cover of Bristol Palin, donning cap & gown, snuggling cheek-to-cheek with her little one, I grinned from ear to ear.

There is a woman on the front cover!
A teen mother who "beat the odds."
She is a mother. She has graduated high school. She looks beautiful, happy, and smart. Her child looks beautiful, happy, and healthy.
And, she has maturely reflected on the consequences of past actions.
"If girls realized the consequences of sex, nobody would be having sex. Trust me. Nobody." ~Bristol Palin
I would've been peachy with just the picture of shimmering graduate Bristol and her baby.
Then ::gasp:: People Magazine admits ::gasp:: choosing to have sex has permanent, serious consequences - a baby! Whether or not Bristol and her partner were using any pregnancy chance-lessening measures, the correlation is smeared all over the People Magazine's million-dollar cover. Sex = possibility of procreation.
If you choose to be sexually active (actions you choose), then you are choosing to accept the possible consequences of a baby (the natural consequence of sexual actions).
I don't care what form or combination of birth control, contraceptive or superstitious practices people use while having sex. Unless one of the partners is guaranteed biologically or chemically or physically sterile, sex has a potential natural consequence - procreation (no matter how unlikely that potential).
Apparently in America, humans require a certain maturity level (arbitrarily 21) in order to be deemed responsible enough to control their enjoyment of alcohol. (Even though it's a Constitutional freedom at 18). Bristol Palin's words may suggest that the action of sex requires responsibility and maturity. I want to add that it's not solely the responsibility of girls. Boys need to assume that understanding of responsibility equally. Wouldn't it be nice if everyone who had sex had to sign a contract (every time) that the risks involved were understood by both parties?

Another snackwrap for thought: "Reproductive rights" is sort of redundant; reproduction is a natural human right. We are built to reproduce. Humans are meant to produce progeny for survival of the species. Actions have consequences. That's a universal concept.