Thread: Increased access to contraception causes abortion?????
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Old 02-24-2008, 01:15 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by paradoxymoron View Post
$1bn 'don't have sex' campaign a flop as research shows teenagers ignore lessons | World news | The Guardian

After 1 billion dollars, "A survey of more than 2,000 teenagers carried out by a research company on behalf of Congress found that the half of the sample given abstinence-only education displayed exactly the same predilection for sex as those who had received conventional sex education in which contraception was discussed."

Heh.

I don't think that the objective of abstinence only education is to remove a teenagers predilection for sex, but rather to make them think about not indulging that predilection.
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