Conservatives Angered Over Obama's Plan to Eliminate Abstinence-based Sex Education
- Pete Winn -- CNSNews.com
- May 11, 2009
(CNSNews.com) - Conservatives say a battle may be looming over the demise of abstinence-education funding.
President Barack Obama’s budget adjustment request last week proposed eliminating $138 million in spending on abstinence-only education, and re-directing the money to a new teen pregnancy “reduction” program that is expected to utilize the ‘abstinence-plus” or “comprehensive” sex-ed approach – one that teaches teens how to use condoms and birth control.
David Christensen, senior director of legislative affairs at the Family Research Council, says that the Obama administration is taking the wrong path if it wants to reduce teen pregnancy.
“Unfortunately the president’s budget adjustment would completely eliminate abstinence-education grants for programs that are clearly working for students across the country,” Christensen told CNSNews.com.
Obama specifically proposes eliminating a $38 million program that makes grants to states, and $100 million in funding o be spent for abstinence education administered by the Health and Human Services Department (HHS).
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