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Published: 02/5/10

Is Denying Abstinence News Any Different From Denying Climate Change?

By  Melinda Henneberger - Politics Daily
Is Denying Abstinence News Any Different From Denying Climate Change?

It's been a bloody week in the culture wars: First came the news that abstinence-only pregnancy-prevention programs may work a lot better than we thought. (Sometimes, I say "we" were wrong just to be polite, but this isn't one of those times; only last week I was on our colleague Bonnie Erbe's PBS show flapping my jaws in favor of the mixed-message approach and insisting that abstinence-only wasn't getting the job done. Live and learn, though; it's not like this is a theological debate, right?) A study of 662 6th and 7th graders published earlier this week in the Archives of Pediatric & ...

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