Well, duh.
US lawmakers are investigating whether to cut government funding for health education programmes that promote sexual abstinence until marriage.
[From BBC NEWS | Americas | Has US abstinence policy failed?]
The move follows a report earlier this year from America's leading health agency, the Center for Disease Control, which revealed one in four teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease.
and, one presumes, one in four teenage boys too.
Seems to have worked so smashingly.And with some 750,000 teenage pregnancies a year, America has one of the highest teen birth rates in the developed world. "This national programme which has wasted $1.5bn of tax money is a failure and our teens are paying the price," says Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood.
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Many conservatives are concerned that "American values" are being eroded. But their opponents believe that the conservatives have an overly influential political voice, particularly within the current Bush administration.
