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I thought most programs teach safe sex with abstinence most obviously being the safest. That's how I recall it being taught.

The ever-present heat of the moment, however, seems to be the largest obstacle to any safe sex initiative.

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[mlh]

I will try and find the study but I wrote a paper on this in college about Bush's federal policy of only supporting abstinence only education programs and basically the result is it had little impact on what was taught in schools.

Educational policy for stuff like that is determined state by state and federal funding actually has minimal impact. Each state is different but growing up in Texas I know that sex education was determined county by county. For example in my county sex education other than abstinence only was not allowed to be taught but in other counties I know that it was.

I come from a very conservative town and when I was in high school there were a group of us students who tried to lobby for sex education in schools but as decided by our school district they rejected our requests.

I disagree with abstinence only education but ultimately the responsibility for these teenage pregnancies rest on the parents and lack of supervision teenagers have these days.

As for the number of abortions in other countries my experience living in West Africa for 2 years was that the issue wasn't so much about sex education or lack of it but more than many women didn't have access to birth control. Either it was available and they were too ashamed to ask for it because the nurses or doctors who dispensed birth control would judge them or could not be trusted always to keep it confidential. The other major problem was many men felt that if their wives or girlfriends were on birth control or insisted on condoms meant that they were unfaithful so they wouldn't allow them the option of birth control.

This has little to do with bush and I feel like its much more of a womens' rights issue. As long as many countries treat women as second class citizens and refuse them rights and allow men to bully and control them then access to birth control and a woman's ability to control her fertility will always be a huge issue.