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About This Document: Abstinence-only activists may be targeting the Blue Dogs for support. Valerie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association, describes her lobbying strategy this way: "Since many abstinence-education providers and abstinence-education supporting parents voted for [BARACK Obama] and the current Congress, cutting abstinence education funding could certainly alienate these constituencies."Abstinence-only proponents are not giving up. In November, roughly 200 to 300 organizations supporting abstinence - including "healthcare providers and schools," according to Huber - signed a letter to Obama requesting a meeting. Huber says that they have not received a response but will "pursue appropriate channels to communicate our message."Adam Sonfield, a senior public policy associate at AGI, says the report's analysis is misleading because the second category - "education and/or awareness about pregnancy and/or STD prevention" - is not comprehensive sex education. For example, 79 percent of the money that HHS includes in that category is actually welfare reform money that states can use to "reduce incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancy," according to the report's appendix. Says Sonfield, "There's no reason to think that any of this is dedicated to comprehensive sex education."

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Real Sex Ed Returns

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Real Sex Ed Returns

Steve Yoder

In These Times; Mar 2009; 33, 3; Docstoc

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