Simmering sex-ed battle heats up

In 2007, the group (Free to Be) received approximately $540,000 in federal funding from the Community-Based Abstinence Education Program under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to federal tax forms filled out by the nonprofit.

To receive that money, groups must abide by federal guidelines that include teaching “that a mutually faithful monogamous relationship in the context of marriage is the expected standard of human sexual activity . . . that sexual activity outside of the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects . . . that bearing children out-of-wedlock is likely to have harmful consequences for the child, the child’s parents, and society.”

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Abstinence-education funding likely to get the axe

Charlie Butts and Marty Cooper - OneNewsNow - 1/20/2009

Conservatives in Congress are trying to plan ways to keep funding for abstinence education while working in a liberal atmosphere. In an article in the Spectator, David Bass of the John Locke Foundation believes Washington has a phobia of abstinence education. Funding for it runs out on June 1, and Bass believes the new president will then support abstinence-plus programs.

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'Safe-sex' ed not working - abstinence ed necessary

Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow - 1/15/2009

A pro-family advocate says a recent study on teen births in the U.S. makes the case for more abstinence education.

The latest Centers for Disease Control study on teen birth rates in the U.S. showed a slight uptick for the year 2006. Mississippi led the nation in the percentage of teens giving birth, while New Hampshire had the fewest.

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