Some Abstinence Programs Mislead

[MountainLaurel]

Many American youngsters participating in federally funded abstinence-only programs have been taught over the past three years that abortion can lead to sterility and suicide, that half the gay male teenagers in the United States have tested positive for the AIDS virus, and that touching a person's genitals "can result in pregnancy," a congressional staff analysis has found.

Those and other assertions are examples of the "false, misleading, or distorted information" in the programs' teaching materials, said the analysis, released yesterday, which reviewed the curricula of more than a dozen projects aimed at preventing teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease.

In providing nearly $170 million next year to fund groups that teach abstinence only, the Bush administration, with backing from the Republican Congress, is investing heavily in a just-say-no strategy for teenagers and sex. But youngsters taking the courses frequently receive medically inaccurate or misleading information, often in direct contradiction to the findings of government scientists, said the report, by Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.), a critic of the administration who has long argued for comprehensive sex education.

Several million children ages 9 to 18 have participated in the more than 100 federal abstinence programs since the efforts began in 1999. Waxman's staff reviewed the 13 most commonly used curricula -- those used by at least five programs apiece.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26623-2004Dec1.html

I am absolutely speechless. :wtf: :nuke: :wtf: :grr:

[EnfantTerrible]

1. We're on the same wavelengnth...

I posted this at the same time you did.

[rkc3]

2. You'll also go straight to hell when you die - because when you have sex

out of wedlock you turn into a prostitute or man-whore. And your parents, who never had sex until they got married and who only have sex to procreate, will stop loving you.

Apparently, they Waxman forgot these little tidbits.

Stupid fuckers.

[noonwitch]

3. Masturbation will make you go blind

My great grandma told my mom that she could get pregnant swimming in the same pool as boys, or if she sat on a boy's lap. She knew better, because my grandma told her how you get pregnant long before great grandma had this conversation with her.

[MountainLaurel]

4. Once again, the U.S. is encouraging ignorance

Apparently, knowing facts about a subject is against something just for us godless commie pinkos. Perhaps they think gawd will strike them dead if they tell the truth.