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She's a dumb kid is all, like millions of others in her age group. No biggie. Her message is still NOT wrong. If you want to completely avoid pregnancy or disease, abstinence IS the best way. Are you going to argue about that?
Uh, yeah, actually. The best way is to know how to practice safe sex and use contraception, not hope you'll be thinking about Jesus when your ankles are behind your ears.
In fact, a study of states that have implemented "absitnance only" programs at the insistence of the religious stupids have found they don't decrease teen sexual activity.
Top Five Reasons to Abandon Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs
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2007 federally-funded evaluation of these programs found that youth in the control group were no more likely to have abstained from sex and, among those who reported having sex, had a similar number of partners and had initiated sex at the same age.
Representative Henry A. Waxman released
a report (pdf) showing that over 80 percent of federally funded abstinence-only-until-marriage programs use curricula that distort information about the effectiveness of contraceptives, misrepresent the risks of abortion, blur religion and science, treat stereotypes about girls and boys as scientific fact, and contain basic scientific errors.
Over $1.5 billion dollars in taxpayer money has been spent on abstinence-only-until-marriage programs since 1996.
While government cuts funding to programs across the board,abstinence-only-until-marriage programs have enjoyed over a 300 percent increase in federal funding since President Bush took office, from $80 million a year in 2001 to $176 million in 2007.