Tim wrote:
On May 9, 4:58 pm, HK wrote:
President Obama vs. Bristol Palin onAbstinence-Only Education

May 08, 2009 7:44 AM

Unwed teenage mother Bristol Palin might be out there talking aboutabstinence, but President Obama isn't buyingabstinence-only education.

Two $100 million programs from his predecessor's budget pushingabstinenceonly are casualties in President Obama's $3.55 trillion
budget proposal.

The President is replacing them with $110 million “for teenage pregnancy
prevention programs that have been proven effective through rigorous
evaluation," as spelled out on pages 490 to 495 of the budget appendix.

Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., applauded the move, saying "eliminating
funding for ineffectiveabstinence-only programs is a win for science.
The Obama budget proposal invests in programs that are effective and
based on sound science, rather than wasting millions of dollars on
efforts that have been proven to be ineffective at best."

Palin, meanwhile, told GMA's Chris Cuomo that "regardless of what I did
personally, I just think thatabstinenceis the only way you can
effectively, 100 percent foolproof way you can prevent pregnancy."

She didn't have an answer readily available when pressed on how her
personal story squares with theabstinenceonly campaign she's pushing.

"I'm not quite sure, I just want to go out there and promoteabstinence
and say, this is the safest choice," she said. "This is the choice
that's going to prevent teen pregnancy and prevent a lot of heartache."

*A recent study in the journal Pediatrics indicated that teenagers who
make "virginity pledges" to remain chaste until marriage are no less
likely to engage in premarital sex but significantly less likely to use
birth control.*

"Taking a pledge doesn't seem to make any difference at all in any
sexual behavior," Janet E. Rosenbaum of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health told the Washington Post. "But it does seem to
make a difference in condom use and other forms of birth control that is
quite striking."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpu...ent-oba-3.html

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Amazing Harry. absolutely amazing.


Yes, indeed, sometimes science is amazing.

"*A recent study in the journal Pediatrics indicated that teenagers who
make "virginity pledges" to remain chaste until marriage are no less
likely to engage in premarital sex but significantly less likely to use
birth control.*"

Is it because the teens who make virginity pledges are just plain dumber
than the ones who do not? :)