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Oz girl:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/ ... 19834.html

This article originally appeared in The Guardian. Does anyone know which US states have abstinence training. Is it always at the expense of normal sex ed or in addition to it? For how long has it been in place?

Deborah:
Some threads on the topic:
http://wwf.fornits.com/viewtopic.php?p= ... ence#77142
http://wwf.fornits.com/viewtopic.php?to ... 9&start=40
http://wwf.fornits.com/viewtopic.php?p= ... ence#83004
http://wwf.fornits.com/viewtopic.php?t= ... abstinence

AtomicAnt:
The abstinence only policy is just another proof of idealogy based policy not working. From the 1970s up to the election of the current President Bush, the rate of teen pregnancies and STDs (sexually transmitted disease) in the USA continuously dropped. Once they put in these abstinence only programs, STDs started to climb.

It proves that you cannot protect people by keeping them ignorant. Accurate education is the key to making good decisions. The fact is simple. Some teens (most?) will have sex before marriage. Most people will have more than one sex partner in their lives. The only way to protect people is with honest, accurate information.

This idea that people should be protected from their own decisions by keeping them in the dark is not only misguided and ineffective, it is arrogant beyond belief. It is the same mentality that tells people to shut up and 'trust your government' and ignore the torture and secret prisons.

Vote on November 7th.

Oz girl:
I could not agree more. Do you know of where I would find any stats with those links?

AtomicAnt:
http://tinyurl.com/ywxzyx

...over 60% of college students who had pledged virginity during their middle or high school years had broken their vow to remain abstinent until marriage.

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/tgr/06/5/gr060504.html

These came in Google. I get most of my news from TV and places like NYTimes.com, CNN.com, and MSNBC.com. The articles in these places don't stick around very long. You have to pay for back articles in the NYTimes. My point is actually that the ineffectiveness of these policies is common knowledge and had been reported in the mainstream press.

In fact, the Federal Government was successfully sued for providing false and misleading information on their own websites about sexual health issues for teens. They had to amend these webistes. This was widely covered in the press.

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