Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
June 27, 2008
ISSUE: More states rejecting abstinence grants.
It is no great surprise that states are having doubts about the effectiveness of federal abstinence education programs.
Program teaches abstinence
Associated Press
Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush administration touts for slowing teen sexual activity.
Barely half the states are still involved, and two more say they are leaving.
Kevin Freking
The Associated Press, June 24. 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) — Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush administration touts for slowing teen sexual activity. Barely half the states are still in, and two more say they are leaving.
After a controversy erupted in late May over a proposal to distribute contraceptives at Gloucester High School, principal Dr. Joseph Sullivan said he was surprised that no reporter had approached him for his take on the matter. If they had, Sullivan told TIME on June 11, he would have explained straightaway that "a lack of birth control played no part" in a quadrupling of the number of teen pregnancies at
U.S. News & World Report - HealthDay Reporter, Posted June 14, 2008
SATURDAY, June 14 (HealthDay News) -- More than half of all people will have a sexually transmitted disease or infection at some point in their life, the American Social Health Association reports.
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