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Like the proverbial monkey typing for infinity and getting Shakespeare, Mayor  Bloomberg’s obsession with reforming New Yorkers’ health has finally produced a  brilliant ad campaign.

Posters are popping up in subway stations and bus stops giving statistics  about teen pregnancy that show cute little kids saying things like, “Honestly,  Mom … chances are he won’t stay with you. What happens to me?” and “I’m twice as  likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen.”

It’s one thing to stigmatize “Big Gulp” drinkers, but liberals are hopping  mad at this attempt to stigmatize teen pregnancy, 90 percent of which is unwed.  To put it another way, if you’re a New York teen with a distended belly these  days, it had better be because you’re pregnant.

Planned Parenthood’s Haydee Morales complained that the ads are creating  “stigma” and “negative public opinions about teen pregnancy.” (I’m pretty sure  that’s the basic idea.)

Instead, Morales suggested “helping teens access health care, birth control  and high-quality sexual and reproductive health education.” Like the kind they  got before becoming pregnant, you mean? Are you new here, Haydee?

Coincidentally, Planned Parenthood happens to provide reproductive health  care! Liberals act as if gun owners, soda-guzzlers and smokers are innocent  victims of the gun, food and cigarette industries, but the $542 million-a-year  birth control industry is a quarry of angels.

The New York Times’ Michael Powell explained in a column that, as a parent of  teenagers, he’s learned that the stupidest thing to do is resort to “the  shame-and-blame game.” Teenage pregnancy, he states categorically, is a “problem  of poverty.”

I think we have a chicken-and-egg problem, but let’s stick to liberals’  newfound opposition to shaming campaigns.

Far from opposing stigmas, liberals are the main propagators of them –  against cigarettes, guns, plastic bags, obesity, not recycling, Fox News, racist  “code words,” not liking “Lincoln” and junk food.

The stigma against smoking has gone so swimmingly that you can’t enjoy a  little tobacco pleasure 50 yards from another human being without some bossy  woman marching over and accusing you of poisoning her.

California is currently running a series of “Reefer Madness”-style  anti-smoking ads, including one that shows cigarette smoke going from a woman  outside on her porch, up a story, through the door of another apartment, across  the living room, down the hallway and into a room where a baby is sleeping. That  would be the equivalent of the Bloomberg ads claiming teen pregnancy causes  genocide.

And what exactly was the purpose of the Journal-News publishing the names and  addresses of every legal gun owner in various counties in New York state a few  months ago? To congratulate them? To start a hunting club?

No, I believe it was to stigmatize legal gun owners. The fact that we didn’t  already know who they were proved that the problem isn’t legal gun ownership.  All those legal guns – and no rash of drive-by shootings!

Los Angeles has banned plastic bags at supermarkets, even though reusable  canvas bags are portable bacterial colonies. But a little ad campaign describing  the downsides of teenage pregnancy – which is still subsidized – and liberals  howl in protest.

One begins to suspect that liberals aren’t as interested in stopping  teenagers from having illegitimate kids as they claim. Do they believe a  teenager who gets pregnant out of wedlock is harming herself and her child as  much a teenager who smokes? How about an unwed teen who smokes at a landfill? 

It’s only a “shame-and-blame game” when liberals secretly approve of the  behavior they pretend to oppose.

Unwed mothers have been the perennial excuse for big government, going back  to Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, who plotted in the 1960s to create  broken families, welfare dependency and urban riots to pave the way for  socialist revolution.

That’s why single mothers are revered victims – victims in need of an  ever-expanding social safety net, staffed with well-pensioned government  workers. As described in that great book, “Guilty: Liberal ‘Victims’ and Their  Assault on America,” liberals concoct fake victims in order to victimize the  rest of us.

The only thing single mothers are “victims” of is their own choice to have  sex with men they’re not married to. Liberals seem to believe that drinking soda  is voluntary, but getting pregnant is more like catching the flu.

It would be hard to make the case that fast food, plastic bags and cigarettes  do more damage than single motherhood.

• Controlling for socioeconomic status, race and place of residence, the  strongest predictor of whether a person will end up in prison is that he was  raised by a single mother. 

   

• At least 70 percent of juvenile murderers, pregnant teenagers, high school  dropouts, teen suicides, runaways and juvenile delinquents were raised by single  mothers.
• A study back in 1990 by the Progressive Policy Institute showed that, absent  single motherhood, there would be no difference in black and white crime rates. 

So liberals don’t try to make that case. They just say they’re against  “shaming” and then go back to shaming gun owners, non-recyclers, smokers and  “Big Gulp” aficionados – while subsidizing illegitimacy.