The Left Launches Offensive Against School Abstience Programs

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Subject: THE LEFT LAUNCHES OFFENSIVE AGAINST SCHOOL ABSTINENCE PROGRAMS 
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Date: December 3, 2004 
From: Jerry Falwell 
THE LEFT LAUNCHES OFFENSIVE AGAINST SCHOOL ABSTINENCE PROGRMS 
Rep. Henry Waxman, one of the U.S. House of Representatives most liberal members, 
has taken aim at federally funded abstinence education programs, accusing many of 
them of promoting misleading information regarding abortion and sexually 
transmitted diseases. 
� report commissioned by the congressman said that abstinence programs distort 
information on the use of condoms in preventing pregnancy and the spread of 
disease, overstate the incidence of emotional and/or physical suffering following 
abortion and over-accentuate religious values in instruction. The report was 
critical of abstinence programs suggesting that life begins at conception. 
Leftist critics of school-based abstinence don't like the fact that President Bush 
has promoted these programs and allotted additional funds to them. This year, 
national abstinence programs will get $170 million in federal funds . 
It is important that Americans understand that Rep. Waxman is a leading proponent 
of condom-distribution programs. He is not simply an unbiased observer in this 
situation. 
The fact is that there are many abstinence education organizations that are helping 
young people carry out their oaths to remain sexually abstinent until their 
marriages. Many leftists despise absolute values that require personal commitment 
and, often, dependence on faith. So it really shouldfit be surprising that school- 
based abstinence education programs are in their crosshairs . 
Focus on the Family Sexual Health Analyst Linda Klepacki said that many criticisms 
leveled at abstinence programs are based on suspect science . 
"Rep. Waxman' s agenda comes through loud and clear on every page of his latest 
attempt to discredit the important work being done in our natiofE schools to 
protect teens from the physical and emotional consequences of sex outside of 
she said. 
"Perhaps most laughable is the charge that abstinence 
marriage , " 
educators present subj ective opinions as scientific fact� that' s a favorite 
strategy of the condoms-first crowd, one it has perfected through the years'.' 
Mrs. Klepacki noted that Rep. Waxman failed to note that the failure rate of 
condoms in the first 12 months of use by teen females is as high as 22.5 percent. 
There's a recipe for disaster if ever there was one. 
This is a critical fact, especially when one considers the fact that the Alan 
Guttmacher Institute found that about three million teens contract an STD 
( sexually-transmitted disease) each year. 
Some of these diseases have no cures . 
It is important that teens know that condoms are simply not a panacea in terms of 
protecting themselves from disease. 
12/6/2004