Steven Ertelt,LifeNews.com
The new $3.73 trillion FY 2012 budget President Barack Obama proposed may ratchet up the deficit,but it continues to drive down the amount of spending on abstinence education compared to spending on comprehensive sex education promoting condoms and birth control.
As the National Abstinence Education Association told LifeNews.com yesterday,the ratio of sex ed spending compared to spending on encouraging teenage boys and girls to make healthy choices by deciding to remain sexually abstinent remains over 16-1. NAEA also explains how members of the House eliminated a program that put a significant percentage of federal funds behind sex ed programs instead of abstinence,though NAEA wants GOP lawmakers to go further by restoring abstinence funding Obama’s administration and congressional Democrats have cut….