FRC: Teen Birth Rate Increase Demonstrates Need For Authentic Abstinence Education
Today, the Family Research Council has released a press release titled, Teen Birth Rate Increase Demonstrates Need For Authentic Abstinence Education. It begins:
Yesterday’s announcement by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reporting a rise in the U.S. teen birth rate for the first time since 1991, clearly illustrates the utter failure of contraceptive-based sex education, the Family Research Council (FRC) declared today. FRC called for a focus on authentic abstinence education as the best form of prevention for youth in the country . . . FRC also criticized the twelve states that have rejected Title V abstinence education funding for their youth (Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Maine, California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Wisconsin, Arizona, Montana, and Connecticut).