Abstinence Funds Chopped, Ryan White Money Upped

by 365 Gay (reposted)

Thu, Jun 21, 2007 10:28PM

Thursday, June 21, 2007 :(Washington) A controversial federal program that stresses abstinence outside heterosexual marriage has been chopped by $28. million. Previously, under the Republican Congress, the federal government spent about $50 million annually on abstinence-until-marriage education.

Participating states then provide $3 for every $4 they get from the federal government. Eight states decline to take part in the grant program.

Critics have repeatedly said they don't believe the programs are working.

In April a Mathematica Policy Research study found that students who participated in sexual abstinence programs were just as likely to have teen sex as those who did not. (

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