Abstinence Still Pulling Its Wait

A new report from the National Center for Health Statistics shows that the country is finally seeing the fruit of President Bush's emphasis on "save" sex. According to the report, the teen birth rate in the U.S. dropped to historic lows between 2007 and 2010 for every age and ethnic group. Although the U.S. still has the highest teen birth rate of all industrialized countries, 16 states watched as teen birth rates fell by at least 20%, and 47 experienced an overall decline. The only states that didn't witness any improvements were Montana, North Dakota, and West Virginia. 

Researchers give most of the credit to young people, who seem to be delaying sex and using contraception. But taken together with another recently published report from the Centers for Disease Control, abstinence seems to have been the major factor. Unfortunately, when liberals took over Congress and the White House, they not only zeroed out abstinence education, but they made teaching it a disqualifying factor for federal grants. FRC Washington Update, April 11, 2012