The health care reform bill consisted of 1,990 pages. Congressmen could hardly have read what they were voting for. Who knows what all is in there? There may be all kinds of surprises. For example, to the dismay of many liberals, funding for abstinence education–which Democrats thought they had killed–was stuck into the bill, to the tune of $250 million:
A little-noticed provision of the health legislation has rescued federal support for a controversial form of sex education: teaching youths to remain virgins until marriage.
The bill restores $250 million over five years for states to sponsor programs aimed at preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases by focusing exclusively on encouraging children and adolescents to avoid sex. The funding provides at least a partial reprieve for the approach, which faced losing all federal support under President Obama’s first two budgets.
via Health bill restores $250 million in abstinence-education funds – washingtonpost.com.
Isn’t it something that teaching children to wait until they get married to have sex is now “controversial”?
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