The mainstream media works hand in glove with Planned Parenthood, feminist groups and Democrat party leaders like Barack Obama in denouncing the effectiveness of abstinence-based sex education programs, insisting instead that condom training classes (i.e. "safe sex" programs) are what really works to curb teenage pregnancies.But alas, once again, the mainstream media, Planned Parenthood, feminist groups and Democrat party leaders like Barack Obama...are telling some very, very big lies.
For here is yet another careful study (one that even the Washington Post calls a "landmark study") demonstrating that abstinence education is indeed very effective in reducing sexual activity among teens.
The study conducted by Drs. John B. Jemmott, Loretta S. Jemmott, and Geoffrey T. Fong was titled "Efficacy of a Theory-Based Abstinence-Only Intervention Over 24 Months: A Randomized Controlled Trial With Young Adolescents." It was published in the February edition of the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
The study involved African-American middle-school students who participated in an inexpensive, only eight-hour abstinence program. Yet that simple program yielded a one-third decrease in the students' rate of sexual activity compared to non-participants.
The formal conclusion of the study? "Theory-based abstinence-only interventions may have an important role in preventing adolescent sexual involvement."
Yeah; I'd say so.
Ron Stein, writing in the Post concludes,
Sex education classes that focus on encouraging children to remain abstinent can persuade a significant proportion to delay sexual activity, researchers reported Monday in a landmark study that could have major implications for U.S. efforts to protect young people against unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.
Only about a third of sixth- and seventh-graders who completed an abstinence-focused program started having sex within the next two years, researchers found. Nearly half of the students who attended other classes, including ones that combined information about abstinence and contraception, became sexually active.
The findings are the first clear evidence that an abstinence program could work...
Well, this study is hardly "the first clear evidence," Mr. Stein. There are many studies from the last two decades which just happen to reflect what we already know from centuries of Western civilization; namely, that sexual activity is at its most healthy, most enjoyable, and most socially cohesive when it is practiced exclusively by married couples.
This study isn't warmly welcomed by the White House, of course. Even less welcome is the splashy story about it given in the Washington Post, a story that reminds readers that the Obama administration has eliminated the $170 million in annual federal funding that had been going for abstinence programs.
In replacement, Team Obama is pushing for $183 million which will exclusively fund "safe sex" programs; that is, programs in which America's teenagers play with condoms, are instructed in "sex play" activities that avoid pregnancy (but not heartbreak, shame and STDs), are taught the normalcy of homosexual acts, and other sexual attitudes given the stamp of approval by Planned Parenthood.
And we all know, despite the lies of the liberal powers that be, where that kind of sexual instruction has taken us.
