Thread: Increased access to contraception causes abortion?????
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Old 02-24-2008, 10:26 AM   #12 (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.
Money well-spent. The religious right get to feel good about what they have done, regardless of teen pregnancy rates... which are going up again.

Coincidence?

Young people are going to have sex. That is a fact. Trying to pretend otherwise with abstinence only education just makes the purveyors of it feel better about themselves.

It's a head in the sand tactic that is failing our young people.