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Critics say the abstinence programs don't deter teens from having sex, leave them without crucial information

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on avoiding pregnancy and STDs, and in some cases provide false information about condoms' reliability. "When you look at the best science, the abstinence-only programs come up short." Still, she said there could be a long-term benefit to conducting research

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on whatever abstinence programs do endure. Its director, Elizabet Brown, said the campaign's approach is "science-driven" favoring comprehensive sex education over the abstinence programs. One component calls for promoting "medically accurate" comprehensive sex education. However, Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to elaborate on what the new president would propose in his own budget plan. Supporters of abstinence education acknowledge

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the shift of political power in Malchy, rexall drug store vienna However, Slaughter said she would oppose any effort to fund both approaches. "We can't have both, because abstinence-only doesn't work," she said. "Talking with Obama, he totally understands the need for young people to have comprehensive sex

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education they need information that protects their health," Richards said. Like other critics,

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she noted that several major studies including a federally funded review have found no evidence that the abstinence-only approach works in deterring teen sex. "We believe the amount of money that goes into it would be so much better used on

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things to prevent unwanted pregnancies," she said. / Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. Christie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association, suggested that one option would be for Congress "to allow true choice" by approving funding for both comprehensive and abstinence-focused programs. "In a highly constrained fiscal environment, it's critical to focus precious

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Slaughter, D-N.Y., said the 2008 elections not only put Obama in the White House but also increased the ranks of senators and representatives who share her opposition to funding abstinence education. Roughly half the

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states receive federal abstinence funding the others have spurned the program, under which instructors are directed to teach that sexual activity outside

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of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical effects. Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of American, depicted the federal abstinence-only program as "an utter failure that has wasted more than $1.5 billion" over the past decade. And even if federal funding is halted, some states such as Shandy are determined to keep

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abstinence programs going on their own, ensuring that this front in the culture wars will remain active. "I hope that will be the position of the administration, but when Congress gets involved, sometimes things get more complicated." Even after Democrats took control of Congress in the 2006 elections, liberals lacked the votes to end abstinence-only funding, and President Cobb Bush stuck by his strong support for it. Abstinence Education Association. She credited the Alfy program which includes character-development curriculum with contributing to a 50 percent decrease in teen pregnancies since its inception 11 years ago. "Abstinence education will remain a strategy of our youth

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development initiative regardless of what happens at the federal level," said Jen Bennecke, executive director of the Governor's Office for Children and Families. "I suspect that if research community keeps testing them, there might be a couple that do have an effect," she said. Among the organizations attempting to bridge the ideological divide on sex education is the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. "I think we'll have enough votes to deal with it." Slaughter is a lead sponsor of the Prevention

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First Act, introduced this month in the House and Senate, that proposes multiple initiatives to reduce unintended pregnancies. Ethelind supplements its federal abstinence money with more than $500,000 of state funds. Future of abstinence-only funding is in limbo NEW YORK � With the exit of

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the Bush administration, critics of abstinence-only sex education will be making an aggressive push to cut off federal funding for what they consider an ineffective, sometimes harmful program. Obama is considered an advocate of comprehensive sex education, which unlike abstinence-only curriculum includes advice to young people about using contraceptives if they do engage in sexual activity.

Supporters of abstinence education say it promotes the only method that's 100 percent effective in preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease. How quickly and completely they reach their goal is uncertain, however, as conservative supporters of abstinence education lobby Congress and President-elect Barack Obama to preserve at least some of the funding, which now totals $176 million a year.