abstinence-only funding

I thought we all decided that abstinence only education doesn’t work. And I don’t mean “we” as in the pro-choice reproductive rights community—I mean students, teachers, parents, school boards, and even the president. But I guess some members of congress didn’t get the memo.

Over 80 percent of ab-only curricula provides misleading, medically inaccurate information about contraception and sex, yet the Senate finance committee voted to fund these programs. What part of "they don't work" is hard to understand?

Obama's Abortion Pledge to the Pope; George Bush's Failed Sex Education Plan; Television as a Form of Contraception

A dozen years and more than a billion dollars later, the federal government is still sinking funds into abstinence-only education, despite multiple studies from across the nation that prove it simply doesn’t work.

President Elect Obama has already made clear his intention to re-establish the United States has a reproductive health global leader by committing to some key policies.