Nov. 26: Bush pushes for more abstinence-only sex ed funding despite mountains of evidence that abstinence-only sex ed doesn't work.
Today: The nation's teen birth rate increased 3% between 2005 and 2006, rising for the first time in 14 years following a slowdown in recent years of the steady decline that began in 1991. "The birth data for 2006 also showed births to unmarried mothers hit a new record high, and the overall birth rate has climbed to its highest level since 1971."
Huh.
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