A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration’s recent changes to the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, which hit groups around the country that teach classes on healthy relationships, abstinence and contraception.
The Trump administration, he wrote “is perfectly entitled to formulate its own views about how to stem teen pregnancy — or even whether it is worth preventing at all — and to pursue policy initiatives consistent with its viewpoint. But it is not at liberty, under the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”), to impose conditions on grant recipients that Congress did not intend or that are unreasonable or unexplained.”
Her phrase is exactly what abstinence-only sex education is.
When kids grow up, they find their own keys and ignitions quite easily. So they have the keys and the ignition/car, and abstinence-only sex ed is like “no driving” driver’s ed. But they have the keys and they’re sitting in the car and they have somewhere they want to be.
I also imagine that abstinence-only sex education doesn’t usually mean teaching safe “outercourse”, mutual masturbation, etc…so they have the keys and the car, somewhere they need to be, and nobody tells them about taxis or busses or bicycles…
Quite a few find those things before they grow up.