We can't have abstinence-only education enthusiasts teaching the topic, for example.
"But we also have the highest incarceration rates, and we don't have comprehensive sex education — we have abstinence-only education".
We have abstinence-only ed to thank for the recent upswing in the teen birth rate, a job assisted by the glamorization of teen moms in the media and of babies in the tabloids and the reality TV shows.
But she said "we should do what we can to limit the number of abortions" by "talking about responsibility with boys and girls, by teaching abstinence, having abstinence classes everywhere, in schools and in churches and in Sunday schools".
Dr. Hamburg has rejected the idea of having abstinence be the main focus of HIV education, saying that "only the best medical and scientific information" should dictate the curriculum not "moral judgment".
She did say, however, that the country should do "what we can to limit the number of abortions, to try to reduce the number of abortions in a lot of ways, and that is, by talking about responsibility with girls and boys, by teaching abstinence, having abstinence classes everywhere in schools and in churches and in Sunday school".
The programs had abstinence and rehabilitation as their primary goal and they offered both individual and group therapy.
Some students who have had abstinence-only education or took virginity pledges will delay sexual activity by a few months, but given that these same young people are much less likely to use contraception, that extra time as an ill-informed virgin hardly seems worth forgoing a real sexual education.
Our future research could study individuals in the community (non-AA), casting light on their pathway to successful abstinence, and whether successful individuals have different abstinence characteristics.
LoveLife's message is the same public-health gospel a Nashi would have used: abstinence, fidelity, condoms.
Now, researchers have put abstinence to work in mammalian cells: When prevented from dividing, the cells crank up their protein output 30-fold.
