Just Say No doesn't work for sex either.

During our dark ages, aka Geedubya term, teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseasess increased dramatically under Bush's evangically motivated education policy according to the CDC.

The Centers for Disease Control released a report, stating that after years of falling rates of teenage pregnancies and sexually transmitted disease infections under the Bush I, Clinton administrations was reversed or stalled in the Bush years. According to the CDC, birth rates among teenagers aged 15 or older that had been decllining since 1991 have jumped sharply in more than half of American states since 2005. The study also revealed that syphilis has increased by nearly 50% in teenage females after a significant decrease and a 20 year fall in the gonorrhea infection rate has also risen. Aids cases in teen boys has nearly doubled.

The CDC also shows that southern states, where the emphasis on abstinence and religion is much greater, also have the highest rates of teenage pregnancy and STDs. In addition, the younger group (10 - 14 year olds) reported about 16,000 pregnancies in 2004 and a corresponding number of young people in this age group reported an STD; again with a much higher degree in the southern states.

OK, so what does this mean? The supporters of abstinence-based sex ed(just say no to sex) have decided that even tho the states with more evangelical leaning have a much higher level of teen pregnancies, even tho the schools that only teach abstinence-based have the higher level of teen STDs, even tho all research has shown that teens that know about birth control and STDs and have an easier access to birth control have higher sense of control over their bodies and actually have less sex, what do these ABS supporters say? Its the evil libruls:

Kristi Hamrick, a spokeswoman for American Values, which describes itself as a supporter of traditional marriage and "against liberal education and cultural forces", said the abstinence message is overwhelmed by a culture obsessed with sex.

"It is ridiculous to say that a program we nominally invest in has failed when it fails to overcome the most sexualised culture in world history. Education that emphasises abstinence as the best option for teens makes up a minuscule part of overall sex education in the United States," she said.

Only problem with Ms. Hamrick's alleged reasoning? Europe has a much lower teen pregnancy rate--and they also have a much lower evangelical takeover of the schools. In most schools in Europe, Canada, teens do not get pregnant at the rate of American teens...and they live their life without evangelical mythology....seems like a plan to me, realistic, intelligent learning, rathen than God is gonna punish you!