Thursday, March 30, 2006

Look, another no-bid contract!

[But the federal grants are fueling a growing industry of abstinence nonprofits, which approach schools and offer to teach sex ed -- in some cases for no charge. HHS estimates that 155 grantees -- including many nonprofits -- will receive funding this year through its Community-Based Abstinence Education Program, compared with 49 in 2001. At the same time, cash-strapped schools are finding it harder to allocate resources for topics like health.]

This whole debate is so unbelievably unbelievable. A complete waste of headspace. (Yet here I am.) Regarding the above excerpt, way to prey on the poor and underfunded (again), W. Yet considering such schools tend to reflect some of the highest teen pregnancy rates, these are exactly the students who stand to benefit most from honest, straightforward sex education. (Too easy, though.) And say, along those lines, I wonder how Bush's War on Porn--or future battles, anyway--would be impacted if kids were raised to view safe, consensual sex as normal? Remove the stigma, save a buck?

If this administration would cease to contradict itself for 30 seconds, well, I wouldn't believe that either.

Posted by princess kanomanom @ 5:44 PM