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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump admin has published its new plan for fighting teen pregnancy-The message: don't have sex.
The Trump administration has published its new plan for fighting teen pregnancy and its message to teens is clear: dont have sex.
Anyone who wants federal government money to fight teen pregnancy must choose from two approaches that includes preventing teens from having sex, or persuading them to stop.
Sex education advocates say it looks a lot like the abstinence-only approach they feared it would be. And they say they dont understand why programs that had been demonstrated to work are being tossed aside for a whole new approach.
The new directive comes in the form of whats called a funding opportunity announcement, and it stresses new and innovative strategies that will focus on stopping teens from having sex at all.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/new-trump-teen-pregnancy-approach-stresses-abstinence-n869141
greatauntoftriplets
(175,794 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,699 posts)DBoon
(22,454 posts)nt
bitterross
(4,066 posts)Let's dredge up some more bad ideas from the past. We have the "Just Say No" movement coming back. Abstinence only and trickle down.
Nothing like failed past policy to ensure future failures.
Voltaire2
(13,397 posts)Abstinence-only was pushed into the schools by the theocrats and demonstrably failed everywhere it replaced actual sex education.
ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)brooklynite
(95,187 posts)The abstinence message is to only have sex when you're married. Trump had ALL of his affairs when he was married.
kacekwl
(7,036 posts)a lawyer who will pay for an abortion and silence .
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Do as I say, not as I do. He is such a repulsive piece of shit.
This has never worked and never will. Idiocracy.
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