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drflox99204
07/16/2008
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the simple solution to end the Abby Flabby spending is to rewrite the rule regarding the use of the funds to be life long reproductive health education funding- that stresses age appropriate education with a strong comprehensive balance of sexual health facts . We all forget that abstinence is part of the continuum of effective sexual health activities and education- is it really appropriate for a 4th, 5th, or 6th grader to be engaging in sex? NO. so they need to be encouraged to be abstaining from sex until physically and mentally ready to have sex with an active and complete knowledge of how to protect them selves...that said it is totally inappropriate for abstinence to be he focus of late middle school or Junior high curricula, it needs to one of the many options presented to young people along with strong decision making skills, birth control education, universal safer safe precautions and life long sexual health information. The current abstinence funding amounts would do a wonderful amount of good if the rules were adjusted to function in the real world- removing the marriage act language(which is useless and discriminatory) and making sure that age appropriate comprehensive education is used (comprehensive means all from Abstinence to birth control to healthy sexuality)-- So lets meet int he middle adjust the language and get funding out there to provide healthy correct and appropriate sexual health education materials to US youth .
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