Bush's Abstinence Only- Ohio High School Has 64 Pregnant Students

[LaPera]

64 of Timken's 490 female students — 13 percent — are pregnant.The statistic at the school in the heart of this old steel city contrasts with a decade of declining teen pregnancy rates nationwide

Joanne Hinton, whose 16-year-old daughter, Raechel Hinton, is eight months pregnant, said she believes the school's abstinence-based sex education program isn't enough.

"It's time to take the blinders off and realize that these kids are having sex," she said. "Obviously, abstinence is not working. If we have to, just give them condoms."

Abstinence-based programs have been growing nationwide at schools over the past few years. In Ohio, the Bush's administration and the state's health department have awarded $32 million in grants to Ohio agencies for abstinence education since 2001.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2005/09/01/national/a114212D46.DTL

[TahitiNut]

1. Abstinence: The only birth control method with a 100% failure rate.

Even though it's one of my hobbies, I can't imagine relying on it.

[YOY]

2. In redder than red southern Ohio...

The "Dur Dur Dur" continues.

Southern Ohio is a scary place.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Sorry, but Canton isn't in southern Ohio.

[YOY]

6. I thought Timken was by East Liverpool?

It's by Canton?

OOopsies!

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Republican abstinence - They don't give a F%@k about anyone but themselve

[Eloriel]

5. Sounds like an epidemic. n/t

[RPM]

7. dumb ass fundies

is am shocked - not.