“After 10 years and $1.5 billion in public funds these failed abstinence-only-until-marriage programs will go down as an ideological boondoggle of historic proportions,” said James Wagoner, President of Advocates for Youth.
“The tragedy is not simply the waste of taxpayer dollars, it is the damage done to the young people who have been on the receiving end of distorted, inaccurate information about condoms and birth control. We have been promoting ignorance in the era of AIDS, and that’s not just bad public health policy, its bad ethics”.
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And the alternative to abstinence is education about prophylactics and how to fornicate safely?
You missed the point entirely. We just spent $1.5B promoting abstinence and it had zero effect. Nada. $1.5B down the drain.
Sadly it is old men who can no longer remember their adolescence and young adulthood and the desire that came with it that are most adamately promoting abstinence. It doesn't work. People will have sex. It is in our biology.
And yes, this is the alternative to abstinence. Exactly as you state. Education about prophylactics and how to fornicate safely.
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