Abstinence for grown-ups

Cause why should teens be the only ones who get fed lies about sex?
The government is planning on spending millions of federal dollars on abstinence programs for unmarried adults. Seriously.

“They’ve stepped over the line of common sense,” said James Wagoner, president of Advocates for Youth, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit that supports sex education. “To be preaching abstinence when 90% of people are having sex is in essence to lose touch with reality. It’s an ideological campaign. It has nothing to do with public health.”

Real shocking, coming from this administration.

The National Center for Health Statistics says well over 90% of adults ages 20-29 have had sexual intercourse.
But Wade Horn, assistant secretary for children and families at the Department of Health and Human Services, said the revision is aimed at 19- to 29-year-olds because more unmarried women in that age group are having children.

Ahem. So even among adults, it’s women who are being targeted for abstinence. Unbelievable. Rebecca Traister puts it best:

Hey asshats, maybe that has something to do with the fact that you’re also chipping away at our ability to get birth control and safe and legal abortions. Maybe if you considered throwing some of that government money toward making sex education, birth control and healthcare more widely available, you’d have more luck in ensuring that each and every one of those pregnant unmarried women is pregnant because she wants to be.

Indeed.
By the way, Horn is the same guy leading the charge to push women welfare recipients to get married rather than get jobs. So you know he has women’s best interests at heart. Ugh.