Bill Would Fund Abstinence After Obama Admin Denies Grants | LifeNews.com: Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services announced new funding opportunities for initiatives on the subject, but included a caveat that grants would no go to agencies promoting abstinence education. Applicants for the FOA must include a written statement that abstinence education is not part of the program, because the Obama administration considers it an “unallowable activity.”
Organizations receiving funding under the program must make a “commitment to not use funds for unauthorized activities, including, but not limited to, an abstinence-education program.” Some $75 million has been authorized under the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 for the programs.
Valerie Huber, director of the National Abstinence Education Association, called the policy discriminatory, saying, “Preventing youth from receiving sexual-abstinence skills is very troubling and completely ignores the body of research that now links teen sex to future divorce in marriage.” Huber says the ratio of federal taxpayer spending on sex education programs is now 16-1 against abstinence education.
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