RE: What does an atheist...
December 14, 2009 at 8:47 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2009 at 8:49 pm by theVOID.)
(December 14, 2009 at 8:32 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: It increases the problem - which is entirely possible. He never said it causes it as you claimed.
Prove that abstinence doesn't work. Are you saying promiscuity prevents AIDS?
He claimed it causes an increase in infection rates, which is completely false, i already linked to a few studies in earlier posts. Take Uganda for example, the spread of condoms helped kick the curb so that more AIDS patients are dying than are being infected, the total number of infected has fallen by 6.2% over in 10 years and was falling consistently up until the bush government decided not to send condoms to Uganda in favor of abstinence
Abstinence Programs Don't Work, Largest Study to Date Concludes
This article reports on a study conducted by Mathematica Policy Research Inc. of students in four abstinence programs, as well as peers from the same communities who did not participate in the abstinence programs. A federally mandated report said that students who participated in sexual-abstinence education programs partially funded by the federal government were just as likely to have sex, and had the same number of sexual partners, as those who did not take part in the programs. Both groups of youths--those who participated in abstinence education, and those who participated in other health education programs available in their areas--had a median age of first intercourse of 14 years and 9 months. However, those students who participated in the abstinence programs were just as likely to use contraception as those who did not. Some critics of abstinence education programs have argued that they reduce rates of contraception usage.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/cus...o=EJ763143
No-sex programmes 'not working'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6927733.st
Abstinence-only sex ed defies common sense
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9504871/
Study Casts Doubt on Abstinence-Only Programs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con...01003.html
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