1.0 link 71226 <![CDATA[Democrats Abstain From Principles: Fund Bush Anti-Sex Education Programs at Record Level]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-wagoner/democrats-abstain-from-pr_b_71226.html Late last week, the Democratic controlled Labor HHS Appropriations Conference Committee endorsed a record $141 million dollar budget for community-based abstinence-only-until-marriage programs which prohibit information about condoms and birth control.

The record-level increase, pushed by House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-WI), flies in the face of a congressionally mandated evaluation showing that abstinence-only programs have "no impact on adolescent behavior." Astonishingly, the windfall was larger than what President Bush had been able to obtain from the prior conservative, Republican-controlled Congress!...

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