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Ya know the difference between abstinence and safe sex don't you? One works 100% of the time it's practiced, the other has a failure rate.
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Obviously not, since Sarah Palin advocates abstinence only and -- OOPS -- her daughter got pregnant!
"Though it is hard to imagine cash-strapped states forgoing potential funds for education in any form, recent data demonstrates that abstinence-only programs have failed to produce the desired outcome. Such programs show no evidence of delaying kids’ first sexual experience nor have the programs been effective in reducing teen pregnancies for those who do have sex." Despite that data, abstinence proponents point to recent teen pregnancy rates for support. According to the National Survey of Family Growth, pregnancy rates “have fallen from 117 births per 1,000 females in 1990 to 76 per 1,000 in 2002.”
However, John Santelli, a professor of population studies at Columbia University, indicated that “most of the 35% drop occurred before 1998, when two separate federal abstinence-only programs were started.”
In fact, out of wedlock teen pregnancies
are now back up.
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