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Having worked with many young teens who are distraught over a past abortion and often suffering from STd's this email got from the Feminist Majority Foundation calling for an end to funding of abstinence only education makes me very angry…
It also amazes me that these groups who push for sex any way any time (just check out PP's Teen Wire Site) have the nerve to blame teen prgnancy on abstinence! How dumb do they think people are????

use the number they give and voice your concerns!Tell them you want abstinence only education…it is the only true way to prevent pregnancy and STD's!

Dear Theresa,

On July 8, the House Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on Labor,
Health and Human Services and Education (Labor HHS) will be considering
funding for FY 2010.  Email the Labor HHS Subcommittee
and Call Chairman David Obey, (D-WI-7), at 202-225-3365 and tell them
that failed abstinence-only sex education programs must not be included
in the FY 2010 spending bill for Labor HHS.

The evidence is irrefutable that spending for abstinence-only sex
education is not only wasteful, but the programs put young women's
health at risk. Study after study documents the failure of these
programs.  A 2004 study by the House Committee on Government Reform,
conducted at the request of Rep. Henry Waxman (D-30-CA) found that over
80% of the curricula used in the largest federally funded
abstinence-only programs contained "false, misleading, or distorted
information about reproductive health."

The
latest report, just released by the Columbia University Mailman School
of Public Health and the Guttmacher Institute, reflects a rise in teen
pregnancy rates in 2006 and 2007 and fewer teens are using
contraception.  These appalling statistics should not come as a
surprise. During this same time period, millions of dollars that could
have been used to provide guidance based on age appropriate sex
education in our schools and communities has been diverted for
ideological reasons to failed abstinence-only programs. 

We
must tell Chairman Obey and the Members of the Labor HHS Subcommittee
that now is the time to stop funding for these programs that are
destructive to our young women and men.  Email them today and please call Obey's office at 202-225- 3365.

For Equality,