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Stop Government Funding of Ineffective and Dangerous Abstinence-only Programs!
On April 13, 2007 the long awaited Mathematica evaluation of abstinence only-until-marriage programs was finally published. Its conclusion: Abstinence-only education does not work to change young people’s behavior.
This long-term, scientific report, requested by Congress, should sound the death knell for these ineffective and dangerous programs. Consider that:
- More than ten state evaluations also show that abstinence-only programs failed to change young people’s behavior
- Seventeen states have rejected the federal abstinence-only funding because the program wastes precious public health dollars
- The Government Accountability Office issued a report recently admonishing HHS for not better monitoring these programs for scientific accuracy
- The Institute of Medicine has called for the termination of abstinence-only programs because they represent “poor fiscal and public health policy.”
- The Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, and every other mainstream medical organization supports a more comprehensive approach to sex education that includes information on both abstinence and contraception.
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