Senate Panel Votes To Restore Abstinence-Only Education Money

[Purveyor]

(09-29) 20:31 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --

A Senate committee voted Tuesday night to restore $50 million a year in federal funding for abstinence-only education that President Barack Obama has pushed to eliminate.

The 12-11 vote by the Senate Finance Committee came over objections from its chairman, Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana.

Two Democrats — Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas — joined all 10 committee Republicans in voting "yes" on the measure by Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah.

The measure would still have to pass the full House and Senate. Hatch said abstinence education had been shown to work, though Baucus disagreed. Obama had proposed in his 2010 budget to direct money spent on abstinence-only education to broader teen pregnancy-reduction programs.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/09/29/national/w191924D01.DTL#ixzz0SYhQW61L

[anonymous171]

1. Socialism. nt

[Zoeisright]

2. It does NOT work, has never worked, nad never WILL work.

Just gives these assholes more reason to judge and try to control people.

[Trocadero]

3. $53 million is the total given to ACORN

[cynatnite]

4. Last night the Dems were in control, today...it's the DINOs...

First it's the public option and now this.

[thunder rising]

5. Michele Bachmann wants to thank Kent Conrad and Blanche Lincoln.

[ashling]

6. Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas

Two Democrats — Kent Conrad of North Dakota and Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas — joined all 10 committee Republicans in voting "yes" on the measure by Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah.
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who'd have guessed??? :shrug:


:sarcasm::sarcasm::sarcasm:

[lamp_shade]

7. I watched that whole debate and I honestly believe Hatch was only interested in "making

a statement" and grandstanding. I really don't believe he thought it would fly. Baucus's mark-up already had $$ designated for this, so I have to believe Baucus accepted it just to shut Hatch up, and he did it so fast that Hatch's head was spinning with disbelief. It was a great move.

[eridani]

8. Silver lining--Baucus actually did something right n/t

[Horse with no Name]

9. they must have reneged on their payment

Bawkus is nothing but a sleazy 2-bit hustler.

[Horse with no Name]

10. Abstinence works! Look at these stats at the end of bush's term

it proves that abstinence works!
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-01-07-teenbirths_N.htm
The newest and most detailed data on teen birth rates shows significant increases in 26 states and represents most regions of the USA.

"To see 26 states with statistically significant increases is fairly remarkable," says Paul Sutton, a demographer with the National Center for Health Statistics, which released the data Wednesday. "We're seeing increases in both the number of teens having births and also the rate at which they are having births. Both of them are going up."

>>>snip
These state-by-state breakdowns add to previously released data from the national center that complete the picture for 2006, a year in which the general fertility rate hit its highest level since 1971 and one that ended a 34% drop in births among women ages 15-19 from 1991 to 2005. In 2006, the teen birth rate increased 3%, to 41.9 births per 1,000 women ages 15-19.
>>>snip
The highest teen birth rates are in the South and Southwest; Mississippi is highest with 68.4 per 1,000, followed by New Mexico, with a rate of 64.1 and Texas, with 63.1. The lowest rates are in the Northeast. New Hampshire had the fewest teen births with 18.7 per 1,000. Vermont, with 20.8 per 1,000, and Massachusetts, with 21.3 per 1,000, were also low. Decreases were noted in New York, North Dakota, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia.

[Liberal In Texas]

11. Abstinence Works! - Sara Palin n/t