Posted on 03/20/2008 3:21:23 PM PDT by wagglebee
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Several dozen members of Congress, all abortion advocates, have signed a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey asking him to cut all funds for abstinence education. They don't want any money spent in the FY 2009 Health and Human Services appropriations bill spent on abstinence.
Congressman Jim Moran, a pro-abortion Virginia Democrat, led the letter campaign and gathered the signatures of 76 of his Congressional colleagues.
"We urge you to reconsider funding for the [abstinence programs] and to devote those dollars to other more effective programs," the letter reads.
They want the money axed from the Community-Based Abstinence Education (CBAE) program.
It called "an important first step" Obey's decision last year to not increase the current level of funding despite requests from President Bush to do so.
The letter complains that $1 billion has been spent on abstinence education programs and the letter claims several studies shows them ineffective.
"Study after study has proven that abstinence-only education simply does not work and we cannot afford to waste millions of taxpayer dollars on programs that we know to be a failure," it claimed.
However, Valerie Huber, the executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association, points to a Valerie Huber, the executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association,
According to the Centers for Disease Control, nationwide there has been a 13 percent decrease in the percentage of teens who have ever had sex between 1991 and 2005.
While the federal government continues to fund the programs, there are now 17 states that have rejected the funding.
And practical experience shows that abstinence is the ONLY thing that prevents ALL teen pregnancy and STDs.
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How about returning those dollars to the taxpayers??
Calling Eliot Spitzer! Calling Eliot Spitzer! Calling Eliot Spitzer!
Satanist Democrats be damned!
Yes, but it's not a Federal-government responsibility.
Exactly my thought!
Several dozen members of Congress, all abortion advocates, have signed a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey asking him to cut all funds for abstinence education.
Now THAT'S worthy of support!
Perhaps a program to spread the information that the CDC kept quiet for years---that condoms don't prevent the spread of HPV?
Exactly.
I would like to see a complete cut in the “stop smoking” spending then. I mean, after all, people are gonna do it anyway right?
I agree; however, this money will be used to push a pro-sex agenda which has the exact opposite effect of abstinence education.
Great idea! They could also point out that wearing ribbons doesn't cure ANYTHING!
If they’d eliminate abortion funding as well, I’d go for it.
>>The letter complains that $1 billion has been spent on abstinence education programs and the letter claims several studies shows them ineffective.<<
My first thought was why bother it doesn’t hurt anything even government abstinence training does effect infection or pregnancy rates.
But if we are really spending a billion dollars AND infection and pregnancy rates are going back up under the current program then we should probably go back to the other programs that worked better or else cancel them and save the billion dollars.
I was going to say something similar.
According to the anti-smoker cartel tobacco is more addictive than heroin and cocaine and there has been a huge spike in the number of young people using those drugs.
When morons like Moran start calling for the end of federal funding for lies and distortions of the anti-smoker cartel, I might, just might, be willing to look at this assinine proposal.
Abstinence only teaches a good, tobacco is more addictive than anything does not. One promotes the truth, the other only promotes lies.
However, statistic show that teen sex rates are dropping.
When tobacco companies start going bankrupt due to an inability to pay the money the government extorted we will probably see a decline in the stop smoking campaign.
exactly. same could go for “carbon emissions” I mean, people are gonna drive anyway, you know!
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