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"The CDC says that southern states, where there is often the greatest emphasis on abstinence and religion, tend to have the highest rates of teenage pregnancy and STDs."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/20/bush-teen-pregnancy-cdc-report

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090916/sc_livescience/teenbirthrateshigherinhighlyreligiousstates
It works SO WELL in the abstinence-only states... SO WELL. I commend them religious folks!

Guardian: George Bush's sex education failure
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/jul/20/george-bush-teen-pregnancy-abstinence

"The Bush-era insistence on catastrophically inefficacious abstinence-only programmes did not only see a race- and income-based divergence in its effects domestically, but internationally, too. Like the global gag rule, which restricted US government funding to NGOs that provided abortion counselling or services abroad, Bush's much-lauded Pepfar (President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief) programme made a condition of its funding that one-third go to abstinence-only campaigns – though, in practice, fully "two-thirds of the money for the prevention of the sexual spread of HIV [went] to abstinence," with tragic results among black and poor populations in Africa."

“participants had just as many sexual partners as nonparticipants and had sex at the same median age as nonparticipants.”
http://www.openeducation.net/2009/01/05/abstinence-only-sex-education-statistics-final-nail-in-the-coffin/

I never saw a penny of that money when I was abstaining. I doubt I'll see any of this money either.

aaaahahahahahahaha ^