Like any Catholic college, mine boasts an ethic of sexual abstinence for students, does not allow any form of birth control to be distributed on campus, and has same - sex residence halls that post visiting hours for members of the opposite sex. (religion-online.org)
Gov. Mike Foster of Louisiana has scrapped a plan for using federal abstinence education money, contending that the proposal by the state public health office strayed from the federal law's goal of promoting sexual abstinence until marriage. (edweek.org)
Worse yet, the federal government spends $ 90 million annually on sexual health education programs that teach sexual abstinence instead of equipping young people with the tools and resources they need. (advocatesaz.org)