Speaking of Sex Ed, Obama Proposes Closing Down Abstinence Education.

President Obama’s 2010 Budget cuts “Community-Based Abstinence Education” among other abstinence-only methods.

Page 491 states:

“This budget eliminates funding for Community-Based Abstinence Education, the mandatory Title V Abstinence Education program, the Compassion Capital Fund, and Rural Community Facilities.”

Reuters reports that these programs will be replaced by programs to reduce teenage pregnancy.

The so-called “abstinence only” programs, backed by many social conservatives who oppose the teaching of contraception methods to teenagers in schools, have received about $1.3 billion in federal funds since the late 1990s. -Reuters

The budget, released today, has yet to be approved by Congress.