In order to make responsible and healthy decisions, young people need medically accurate, age-appropriate information about sex and sexuality.
Yet, over the past decade, the federal government has allocated more than $1.3 billion for ineffective, dangerous abstinence-only programs that provide students with incomplete, medically inaccurate information that focuses solely on abstinence and provides little or no information about contraception.
President Obama has said that he supports comprehensive sex education programs that promote abstinence and provide information on contraception.
As President Obama and Congress finalize the details of the fiscal year 2010 budget, urge them to stop funding abstinence-only programs and direct our scarce public health resources to evidence-based, comprehensive sex education programs that actually work.
Click here to tell Mr. Obama to just say no.
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