Trump admin announces abstinence-focused overhaul of teen pregnancy program

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: The Hill

The Trump administration will shift federal funding aimed at reducing teen pregnancy rates to programs that teach abstinence.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday the availability of grants through the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, a grant program created under President Obama that funds organizations and programs working to reduce teen pregnancy rates.

Except under Trump's HHS, the grants will be geared toward organizations that teach abstinence education to teens instead of the comprehensive sex ed approach the previous administration supported.

In a funding announcement released Friday, the administration announced two tiers of funds for the TPP program. In the first, grantees would have to follow one of two abstinence programs to receive funding.

Read more: http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/384208-trump-admin-announces-abstinence-focused-overhaul-of-teen-pregnancy

[applegrove]

1. Cultivating their wedge issue. The right is not trying to reduce abortions. If that were to happen

the religious right might not vote GOP. Just like the gun issue they need it a going concern.

[anneboleyn]

15. Yes. Repubs running on standard wedge issues (abortion, immigration, gunz)

They are obviously desperate for issues to get their base out. Given all of the “retirements”and the sudden appearance of wedge issue material we can assume their internall polling must be very bad (of course though dems must still vote!)

[Solly Mack]

2. He can name Bristol Palin to the board.

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Idiots all. Cruel, vicious, stupid.

[cstanleytech]

8. Well she would be he ideal choice if the goal is the show the failures of such a program.

[Solly Mack]

10. Hypocrisy is their middle name.

[machoneman]

24. For a guy who wouldn't know a condom if it hit him over the head!

Just sayin'!

[Honeycombe8]

3. How could a TRUMP administration possibly announce that with a straight face.

[Marie Marie]

30. I think that if it wasn't for Viagra, Trump would be abstinent.

[Honeycombe8]

40. Well, yeah...at his age and health condition. No doubt about it. nt

[rurallib]

33. like having a male dog head up the "don't pee on trees" committee

[Honeycombe8]

41. Exactly. nt

[cyberswede]

4. His assigment is to ruin America. nt

[not fooled]

22. Yep.

Back to the middle ages, with the kook brothers aiming to be the feudal lords.

Let's give them a nasty little surprise at the polls.

[anneboleyn]

5. Seriously. The ass who pays porn stars for adulterous sex is going to preach to teens...

Every day this spectacle becomes more absurd. I’m sure this is a lame play to evangelicals before the November midterms but ffs.

[grantcart]

13. No sense of shame or irony or common sense. Its a trifecta of idiocy

[bucolic_frolic]

6. This will go over well until they are laughed out of the schools

That genie is not going back in the bottle

[safeinOhio]

9. I wouldnt doubt that he will now

invest in abortion clinics. You know they will be busy.

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. Until SC reverses Roe and then he will invest in women's detention centers where

those guilty of governing their own body will be sent.

This WILL happen if EVERYBODY here doesnt vote for ANY democrat.

All the SC can do is reverse Roe, your STATE can then KILL Your daughter or sister if they want.

THE DIRECT result of this will be more pregnancies, more abortions, and ultimately more sexually transmitted disease and death.

But hey, private server people, cant have them.

[procon]

11. Again with this religious claptrap?

Where's the science! We're going backward with this War on Women, medieval bullshit. Policies like this hurt young women and ruin their lives by forcing them into unwanted pregnancies as a means of punishment for the crime of having premarital sex.

And lets not forget the young men who won't get condoms. They will still engage in risky unprotected sex that jeopardizes their health as well as their partners.

Thanks Trump, you probably engaged in the same behaviors, but you were rich enough to pay off the women you used.

[Angry Dragon]

12. Oh please do not do that.....Okay i will say no..everything is fine

Do you need that sex?? i will say no
Do you need those drugs?? I will say no
Do you need that gun?? Okay i will say no

[barbtries]

14. every fucking day

they do something to make this country come closer to falling apart. it's beyond understanding.

[BigmanPigman]

20. This is what his cult/base voted for (besides hypocrisy).

Bannon was the ringleader of deconstructing the government. Normally the GOP wants less government as a campaign issue, but this admin goes way beyond that. Half of the State Dept is empty. We have half the staff in most depts and forget about foreign ambassadors....most of them are gone.

The Dems, if they are smart, will change the topic ASAP when the issues of abortion and guns whenever they come up during the midterm campaigns. We need to stick to affordable health care and the terrible tax scam. All voters care about these two issues.

[barbtries]

32. i don't agree with that

i want to know that i am voting for people who will protect reproductive rights and fight for common sense gun laws. i am not alone.

[JDC]

16. Time for teen pregnancy to get back on the rise.

These people are as dumb as the come. Nothing but hypocritical zealots.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

17. Teaching/ encouraging masturbation as a subsittute for intercourse actually a good idea for teens

& young adults who often just arent prepared psychologically for taking responsibility for intercourse/birth control/sexual relationships.... but somehow I dont think thats what they mean by "abstinence."

Ironically, its these far right /overly religious people that are CAUSING a lot of unwanted pregnancies (and abortion) by instilling fear and ambivalence instead of responsibility and acceptance of how the Good Lord created us (ie as sexual beings.).

[riversedge]

18. sen Patty Murray, hit it spot on and calls it the Trump-Pence.....

program. Pence is leading this no doubt. damn!

http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/384208-trump-admin-announces-abstinence-focused-overhaul-of-teen-pregnancy

....Democrats argue the changes are ideological and will jeopardize record-low teen pregnancy rates in the U.S.

“Both Democrats and Republicans have supported investing in evidence-based approaches to preventing teen pregnancy, so it is disappointing — and deeply concerning — that the Trump-Pence Administration is doing everything it can to undermine these investments in ways that take us in the absolutely wrong direction on this issue," said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Health Committee. "These changes show yet again that the Trump-Pence Administration’s priority is imposing its extreme, backwards ideology, no matter what that means for women, families, and communities.”

[keroro gunsou]

19. george was right

the right needs live babies to grow up to be dead soldiers.

[flibbitygiblets]

35. +1

Using religion and irrational fear (terrorism, ...hell) to dupe people into having lots of children who grow up to see enlisting as their only way of making a living. Until they get used in the latest war.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Democratic administrations' use of comprehensive education works; Repub abstinence programs don't

[paleotn]

23. Throwing a bone to the religo-nuts...

while hanging out with bunnies and porn stars. Right.

[machoneman]

26. Bone? A bone you say.....

Hah!

[Downtown Hound]

25. Mr. "Grab 'em by the pussy" wants to focus on abstinence

Sure, why not?

[Eliot Rosewater]

27. They will kill our children this way, which is what they want to do.

How is that nose holding working out by the way (not directing this to OP)

[CelticWinter]

29. his mother should have

practiced abstinence and we wouldn't be in this mess

[flibbitygiblets]

36. There's a condom ad in Brazil that makes the same point

[regnaD kciN]

31. No better spokesman for abstinence...

...than a president who was "grabbing 'em by the pussy" while married to his third wife, with whom he cheated on his second wife, with whom he cheated on his first wife...and that's not even counting the Playboy bunnies and porn stars.

[flibbitygiblets]

37. as it is written in the bible:

[Turbineguy]

34. DO NOT HAVE SEX!

It feels good. You'll love it. You want to do it all the time. But.

DO NOT HAVE SEX!

[Grammy23]

38. Probably will be just about as effective

As Just say No to drugs programming.

[DeminPennswoods]

39. All Dems should be calling on Trump to lead by example

nt

[Nitram]

42. Trump is trying to revive every failed GOP program there ever was.

He represents the right wing's "Last Stand."

[malthaussen]

43. Of course Mr Trump endorses abstinence...

,,, look how well it worked for him.

-- Mal

[jmowreader]

44. We already tried that

[Elwood P Dowd]

45. Repukes are famous for repeating the same mistake over and over and over again

expecting a different result. The definition of insanity.

[IronLionZion]

46. Abstinence should be a popular choice for INCELs

[Paladin]

47. It ought to be officially named the "Donald Trump Abstinence Program"

Just for laughs......