Abstinence Funds? No Thanks, Says New York.

Kay Steiger — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:04:16 EDT

According to Kaiser Network, New York has joined a list of 11 states to refuse federal abstinence-only education funds in the last few years. The state will reject about $3.5 million this year in favor of teaching comprehensive sex ed. This shows that states are actually deciding that abstenence-only education is doing more harm than good, so it's not worth it to accept the funding.

The article highlighted this gem from Leslie Unruh, who tried so hard to keep the South Dakota abortion ban in effect, "A lot of kids that are abstaining are made to feel as if they are from a Victorian age and they are not with the 'Sex and the City' crowd."

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Abstinence Funds? No Thanks, Says New York.