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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsObama severed all funding for Christian-based abstinence education but Trump is bringing it back
Now, President Trump is taking funds from programs designed to reduced teen pregnancies and diverting it back to abstinence programs. According to The Hill, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced this Friday that funds for Obamas Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, (TPPP) would now be pointed towards abstinence education for teens instead of the comprehensive sex ed that Obama championed.
Projects will clearly communicate that teen sex is a risk behavior for both the physical consequences of pregnancy and sexual transmitted infections; as well as sociological, economic and other related risks, the funding announcement reads. Both risk avoidance and risk reduction approaches can and should include skills associated with helping youth delay sex as well as skills to help those youth already engaged in sexual risk to return toward risk-free choices in the future.
Projects will clearly communicate that teen sex is a risk behavior for both the physical consequences of pregnancy and sexual transmitted infections; as well as sociological, economic and other related risks, the funding announcement reads. Both risk avoidance and risk reduction approaches can and should include skills associated with helping youth delay sex as well as skills to help those youth already engaged in sexual risk to return toward risk-free choices in the future.
[link:http://deadstate.org/obama-severed-all-funding-for-christian-based-abstinence-education-but-trump-is-bringing-it-back/|
Of course he is.....
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Obama severed all funding for Christian-based abstinence education but Trump is bringing it back (Original Post)
Soph0571
Apr 2018
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Arkansas Granny
(31,483 posts)1. I'm afraid we will see more and more concessions to the religious right
as Trump tries to hold on to his base supporters. This is dangerous ground because a Republican Congress will likely back him up.
November's Blue Wave can't come soon enough.
elocs
(22,474 posts)3. "November's Blue Wave can't come soon enough."
Well it will never come unless the Left shows up and votes like it is a presidential election they are excited about. I wouldn't pin my hopes like when we thought there was no way America would ever elect Donald Trump president.
janterry
(4,429 posts)2. Proven waste of money
n/t
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)4. Yes, because he is the model for abstinence.
This just gets more ridiculous every day.