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On May 9, 8:35 pm, DK wrote:
HK wrote:
President Obama vs. Bristol Palin on Abstinence-Only Education
May 08, 2009 7:44 AM
Unwed teenage mother Bristol Palin might be out there talking about
abstinence, but President Obama isn't buying abstinence-only education.
Two $100 million programs from his predecessor's budget pushing
abstinence only 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 ineffective abstinence-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 that abstinence is 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 the abstinence only campaign she's pushing.
"I'm not quite sure, I just want to go out there and promote abstinence
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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It's the big brave progressive, picking on little girls and other
helpless foe's...

Bristol Palin simply engaged in premarital sex and got pregnant. If
there is blame in that family, it should be placed at the feet of her
mother, who did not properly educate her daughter and quite possibly
forced young Bristol to not get an abortion.