{"id":238,"date":"2004-12-02T18:42:55","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T18:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/238"},"modified":"2004-12-02T18:42:55","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T18:42:55","slug":"and-youll-go-blind-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/238","title":{"rendered":"…and you’ll go blind too!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rep. Henry Waxman’s (D-CA) office has come out with a report on The Content of Federally Funded Abstinance-Only Education Programs<\/a> (pointer via the SJ Mercury News<\/a>). These are federally-funded (though not federally supervised) programs to teach teenagers the importance of not having sex before marriage \u2014 often by scaring the bejesus out of them. I’m all in favor of teaching teenagers (and adults) to think twice and three times before having sex, but it would seem quite a number of the programs have found that it’s easier to scare people with opinion, distortions and outright falshoods than to let kids think for themselves with all the facts on hand.<\/p>\n

From the report’s executive summary:<\/p>\n

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The report finds that over 80% of the abstinence-only curricula, used by over twothirds of SPRANS grantees in 2003, contain false, misleading, or distorted information about reproductive health. Specifically, the report finds: <\/p>\n