There's also a piece in this week's New Scientist - Is abstinence policy failing to fight HIV? (subscription required to read all of it, but the except's enough to get the gist). "TALK about a policy backfiring. The US government's emphasis on abstinence and faithfulness to prevent the spread of HIV may be leading to an upsurge in infection rates, delegates were told on Monday at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto, Canada."

What makes you think that increased teen pregnancy is a failure, to their way of thinking. A girl who gets pregnant before she graudates high school is far less likely to graduate, almost certainly not going to college, and will never be able to support herself. This is one of the specific goals of most fundies - to reduce women to literal slavery again. It is consistent with their view that women are, literally, just another plot of dirt, to be ploughed and planted like any other. It's not like they're *human*, or something.

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