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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 Waxman, D-Calif., an administration critic who long has argued for comprehensive sex education.
seattletimes.nwsource.com...
Originally posted by jupiter869
-- Touching a person�s genitals can result in pregnancy
Originally posted by Jonna
Originally posted by jupiter869
-- Touching a person�s genitals can result in pregnancy
Does that include touching yourself if you are male?
Congress first allocated money for abstinence-only programs in 2001, setting aside $80 million in grants, which go to a variety of religious, civic and medical organizations. President Bush has backed the movement enthusiastically, proposing to spend $270 million in 2005. Congress reduced that to about $168 million, bringing total abstinence spending to nearly $900 million over five years.
Nonpartisan researchers, however, have been unable to document measurable benefits of the abstinence-only model. Columbia University researchers found that, although teenagers who take "virginity pledges" may wait longer, 88 percent eventually have premarital sex.
Originally posted by xpert11
Mis leading people thou education is the second best way to controll the population. Put a generation of students thou school with that kind of rubbish and America will lose its super status not thou the economic growth of China but because the population including future leaders will be idoits.
Originally posted by Ocelot
Reading the article I couldn't help but laugh. Abstinence doesn't work, it never has. Religion teaches people that their bodies are dirty vehicles of sin and sex should be suppressed, when in reality sex is a perfectly normal thing. It's funny you have the catholic church telling people sex is dirty and you have all these priests abusing kids.
Originally posted by jupiter869
In this day and age, providing misinformation is a new twist to the argument about teaching kids just to say no.
Originally posted by Bleys
A couple of other things in this article really caught my eye (other than the disinformation they are teaching).
Congress first allocated money for abstinence-only programs in 2001, setting aside $80 million in grants, which go to a variety of religious, civic and medical organizations. President Bush has backed the movement enthusiastically, proposing to spend $270 million in 2005. Congress reduced that to about $168 million, bringing total abstinence spending to nearly $900 million over five years.
Nonpartisan researchers, however, have been unable to document measurable benefits of the abstinence-only model. Columbia University researchers found that, although teenagers who take "virginity pledges" may wait longer, 88 percent eventually have premarital sex.
*snip*
The second item of note was WHO was getting this money - religious, civic and medical organizations. Why are religous organizations getting money for preaching something that they teach every week anyway - have sex before marriage and you'll go to hell? Now they need money to reinforce that.
This lovely piece of federal spending gets my vote for biggest waste of my money to date.
B.
Originally posted by jupiter869
The Bush administration is spending over $900 million on abstinence education for teenagers to help stop pregnancy. But the program contains OUTRIGHT LIES, deliberately misleading teenagers about human sexuality and biology including:
-- Touching a person�s genitals can result in pregnancy.
-- HIV/AIDS can be spread via sweat and tears.
-- Half of all gay male teenagers have tested positive for AIDS.
-- Women who have an abortion are more prone to suicide.
-- A 43-day old fetus is a thinking person, and
-- During heterosexual intercourse, condoms fail 31 percent of the time. (the actual number is 3 percent)
"The head of the love organ is shaped exactly like a poisonous rattlesnake. And just like a rattlesnake, it's always looking for a hole."
Oh yes, there was more. He went on to explain that 70% of all divorces result from the wife's inappropriate feelings of entitlement toward her husband's genitals.
Originally posted by LostSailor
But statistics show that sheepskin condoms fail 31% of the time... I got nothin' on this one