Groups Challenge Abstinence Curriculum

[Eugene]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5275686,00.html

Groups Challenge Abstinence Curriculum


Tuesday September 13, 2005 7:46 PM

By KEVIN FREKING

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two organizations that promote sex education are
taking an unorthodox approach in their fight against federal funding
of abstinence-only education programs.

Relying on a little-used law that allows "affected persons" to seek
the correction of information disseminated by federal agencies, the
groups said Tuesday that the abstinence education programs contain
erroneous and ineffective information. They asked the Health and
Human Services Department to correct it.

About three-quarters of the challenges made under the two-year-old
Information Quality Act have come from industry groups concerned
about regulations.

The two sex-ed organizations, Advocates for Youth and the Sexuality
Information and Education Council of the United States, support
educating youth about contraceptives as a means of avoiding
pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.

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[Angry Girl]

1. good for them!

I personally think that abstinence education is one of the stupidest, most unenlightened strategies of all time.

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[LynzM]

2. Good.

"support educating youth about contraceptives as a means of avoiding pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases"

Who'd a thunk it? It's so absurd to me that there are people who really believe that if you don't tell kids anything about sex, they just won't have sex. Totally absurd.

[etherealtruth]

3. I hope they are successful!

[MaineDem]

4. Schools in maine are fighting it as well

There ws a story a week or so ago about this in the local papers.