Comments on: Future of abstinence-only funding in limbo

By: Bill Dubay

Bill Dubay — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:15:01 +0000

RE: Paragrpah 6 of Future of abstinence-only funding in limbo:
“Even after Democrats took control of Congress in the 2006 elections…” No, no, no, Democrats won a majority, but that hardly meant they took control. Just look at the record, there is obviously no party discipline.

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:14:10 +0000

Abstinence-only programs? Are you kidding me? They’re a joke! I’m 16 years old and I’m quite sure that I’m one of the VERY few students at my high school that actually practice abstinence. Really, I’ve had health teachers just talk about abstinence and have nearly the whole class laugh at them because practicing abstinence is something that seems very unrealistic to them.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:14:16 +0000

AlexH Said: Teach safe-sex AND abstinence.
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EXACTLY!!!
As my Great Aunt used to say “If you can’t be good, be careful.”

By: AlexH

AlexH — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:43:16 +0000

Get rid of it! Teach safe-sex AND abstinence. You would think that people would get over their “sacred virgin” ideology when kids health and lives are at risk.

If they have sex, then teens need to know how to protect themselves and abstinence only doesn’t do it. They all can’t be like the Jonas Brothers and their virgin rings.

By: Bud Burgoon-Clark

Bud Burgoon-Clark — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:55:38 +0000

It should also be noted that young women who sign “purity pledges” at those creepy father-daughter “Virginity Balls” are MORE likely to have UNPROTECTED sex and MORE likely to get pregnant out of wedlock.

Tell a teen-ager NOT to have sex? Give me a break.

What was it Xander on “Buffy” said?

“I’m seventeen; staring at LINOLEUM makes me horny!”

By: John

John — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:25:24 +0000

It is about time people started to recognize how insanely useless abstinence-only programs are. Not only were they complete waste of resource (i.e.; time, energy, and taxpayer money) but they were insulting to everyone’s intelligent and ineffective (the rates of STDs and unwanted pregnancies skyrocketed) but criminally negligent. Perhaps now, they can initiate real, aged-appropriate, sex education programs that will provide the facts about birth control options and reproductive health.

While they are at it, they need to sack the rest of those so-called “faith-based” programs and start initiating some fact-based programs instead.

By: John

John — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:02:26 +0000

About time!

By: Don

Don — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:44:31 +0000

One has to only look towards Alaska for the failure of this program. Gov. Palin was a big supporter and a grandmother now of an unmarried teenager

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:43:10 +0000

Dump it! It has been a waste since the first penny spent on it.