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Federal funding for the harmful and ineffective abstinence-only-until marriage programs was supposed to be a thing of the past. President Obama zeroed out their funding in his 2010 budget. The House of Representatives, even former ally Appropriations Chair David Obey, approved the budget without allowing ab-only funding to be snuck back in. And it looked like the Senate would land the final blow and get rid of it for good.
But Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) has decided to make a last ditch effort to sneak abstinence-only funding back in, attaching an amendment to the Baucus Health Care Reform bill that would revive the $50 million in funding to the Title V program.
The amendment’s fate will come down to the vote of 5 Senators in the Finance Committee who are all on the fence.
Thomas Carper (D-DE)
Kent Conrad (D-ND)
Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)
Bill Nelson (D-FL)
Olympia Snowe (R-ME)
If you live in Delaware, North Dakota, Arkansas, Maine or Florida, please click here to send them your message that over 10 years and $1.5 billion for these failed abstinence-only programs is enough. We can’t allow students to continue receiving this ineffective and harmful miseducation on the taxpayers’ dime.
This money has gone (and would continue to go) to abstinence-only groups so that they can lie to students about condoms being ineffective, set up fake “crisis” pregnancy centers that tell women that abortion is unsafe and will give them breast cancer, and actually send a juggling abstinence clown into middle school classrooms to teach them about “sex”.
The abstinence clowns have to go, no matter how much fellow clowns like Orrin Hatch try to save their funding.
If you have any friends or family in these 5 states, please let them know!
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