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March 12, 2008 · 2 Comments

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“The [U.S.] national policy of promoting abstinence-only programs is a $1.5 billion failure and teenage girls are paying the real price.”

How to use a condom.
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The Content of Federally Funded Abstinence-Only Education Programs

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  • Genuinely lethal. « It’s a KIRBY // March 14, 2008 at 11:22 am | Reply

    [...] The rate of gonorrhea among American teens is seventy times higher than it is among their peers in t… [...]

  • Kirby // April 14, 2008 at 11:26 am | Reply

    But the tendrils of unreason creep further. President Bush recently decided to cut off funding to any overseas family-planning group that provides information on abortion. According to the New York Times, this “has effectively stopped condom provision to 16 countries and reduced it in 13 others, including some with the world’s highest rates of AIDS infection.” Under the influence of Christian notions of the sinfulness of sex outside of marriage, the U.S. government has required that one-third of its AIDS prevention funds allocated to Africa be squandered on teaching abstinence rather than condom use. It is no exaggeration to say that millions could die as a direct result of the single efflorescence of religious dogmatism. As Nicholas Kristof points out, “sex kills, and so does this kind of blushing prudishness.”

    SAM HARRIS, “The End of Faith”
    http://www.samharris.org

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