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Experts Say Sex Abstinence Program Doesn't Work

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Posted: Thu., April 24, 2008, 07:00 am
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Topics: Sexuality, Bush administration, Definition, pregnancy, Research, sexually transmitted diseases, News
     

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Programs teaching U.S. schoolchildren to abstain from sex have not cut teen pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases or delayed the age at which sex begins, health groups told Congress on Wednesday.

The Bush administration, however, voiced continuing support for such programs during a hearing before a House of Representatives panel even as many Democrats called for cutting off federal money for so-called abstinence-only instruction.

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