Another conservative break thriugh: JUST SAY NO!!
Who could possibly even think that this could work?? I wonder if w
waited to have sex until he was married? What about you, Rob, did
you wait??
AMA: No Evidence that Abstinence Sex Ed Works
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
By Peggy Peck
The new AMA policy puts the doctor group at odds with the Bush
administration, which just last week reaffirmed its support of
abstinence-only based programs. But AMA president-elect J. Edward
Hill, MD, a family physician from Tupelo, Miss., tells WebMD that
the issue is too important to back any sex education curriculum that
is not evidence-based.
"The cost of teenage pregnancy from the cost of prenatal care to
the cost of caring for babies born to teens is outrageous, not to
mention the public health consequences of sexually transmitted
diseases. Given those facts the AMA is compelled to take a stand on
this issue," Hill says.
The evidence shows that abstinence-only programs don't work for all
adolescents and these programs don't work in all settings, says
Hill. He says that the AMA wants the federal government to fund only
programs that have evidence of solid results.