I live in the part of the country that thinks sex is evil and sex ed is the work of the Devil.  About the only sex ed is the lame abstinence only and that has work so well that my state leads the nation in teen pregnancies.

A November, 2004, Washington Times article noted that the Bush administration “included more than $131 million for abstinence programs in its $388 billion spending bill. This represents an increase of $30 million for programs that teach middle- and high-school youths that sexual abstinence until marriage is the best choice. The new funding is far less than the $100 million Mr. Bush requested, but it marks a “record level of funding,” said leaders of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse in Sioux Falls, S.D.”

Here are some of the fallacies children are being taught with abstinence-only education:

* A 43-day-old fetus is a “thinking person.”

* HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, can be spread via sweat and tears.

* Condoms fail to prevent HIV transmission as often as 31 percent of the time in heterosexual intercourse.

* One curriculum, called “Me, My World, My Future,” teaches that women who have an abortion “are more prone to suicide” and that as many as 10 percent of them become sterile. This contradicts the 2001 edition of a standard obstetrics textbook that says fertility is not affected by elective abortion, the Waxman report said.

(Thanx to the blog “The Countess” for her reporting)

Now that we have a new president, there is a move away from the stupid that is abstinence only—we need to thank somebody for that–abstinence only is a FAILED program….scrap it and start teaching the children the truth.