Other "facts" include that abortion can lead to sterility and suicide,
half the gay male teenagers in the US have tested positive for HIV,
and condoms fail to prevent transmission of HIV in 31% of incidences
of heterosexual intercourse.
US government figures contradict all of these assertions.
From The Guardian, 12/3/04:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1365262,00.html
Washington funds false sex lessons
Gary Younge in New York
Friday December 3, 2004
The Guardian
The Bush administration is funding sexual health projects that teach
children that HIV can be contracted through sweat and tears, touching
genitals can result in pregnancy, and that a 43-day-old foetus is a
thinking person.
A congressional analysis of more than a dozen federally funded
"abstinence-only programmes" unveiled a litany of "false, misleading
and distorted information" in teaching materials after reviewing
curriculums designed to prevent teenage pregnancy and sexually
transmitted disease.
There are more than 100 abstinence programmes, involving several
million children aged nine to 18, and running in 25 states since 1999.
They are funded by the federal government to the tune of $170m, twice
the amount when George Bush came to power.
The money goes to religious, civic and medical organisations as
grants.
To qualify they may only talk about types of contraception in terms of
their failure rates, not about how to use them, or the possible
benefits.
The survey was conducted by the staff of congressman Henry Waxman of
California, a longstanding Democratic critic of the Republican
administration's approach to sex education.
His team concentrated on the 13 programmes that are most widely used,
and found only two of them were accurate.
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