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Abstinence is universally recognized as the most effective way to prevent pregnancy disease transmission amonst unmarried people.
Abstinence programs have been under attack for years, despite the growing number of teens who abstain or delay premartial sex.
The analysis The Attack on Abstinence Education: Fact or Fallacy? helps to explain how these criticms are unfounded. (Adobe PDF reader required).
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The Attack on Abstinence Education: Fact or Fallacy? Written by Kate Hendricks, MD, MPH&TM, Patricia Thickstun, PhD, Anjum Khurshid, MBBS, MPAff, Sheetal Malhotra, MBBS, MS, Harold Thiele, PhD Executive Summary - (Click for full report) The Journal of Adolescent Health published a review article entitled Abstinence and abstinence-only educationa: A review of US policies and programs1 and a second article entitled Abstinence-only education policies and programs: A position paper of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2 in the January 2006 issue. Both were written by a team of authors headed by John Santelli, and the position paper simply restates the arguments presented in the review article. The authors of these 2 articles claim that abstinence programs “threaten fundamental human rights to health, information, and life.” They say that “abstinence as a sole option for adolescents is scientifically and ethically problematic. . . [and that] abstinence-only education programs . . . are morally problematic.” |
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