New Stanek WND column, "Linking U.S. teen pregnancies and AIDS in Africa"

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CNN reported July 11 that according to the National Institutes of Health, U.S. teen pregnancies in 2006 rose for the first time since 1991....

In the same article, CNN reported a "striking decrease" in the percentage of 8th graders smoking....

While federal health experts were at a loss to explain the spike in teen pregnancies, a CDC official said smoking abated due to "efforts convincing kids and adults not to smoke," according to CNN.

So teaching smoking abstinence works, reminiscent of last decade's "Just Say No" drug abstinence campaign.

It would make sense to teach kids to abstain from the harmful behavior of premarital sex.

But no. The Associated Press reported June 24 that 22 state governors have now rejected federal grant money to teach sexual abstinence, with "participation in the program... down 40% over two years."...

Meanwhile, a Ugandan AIDS-Prevention Committee member wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post June 30, stating....

The proportion of Ugandans infected with HIV plunged from 21% in 1991 to 6% in 2002. But international AIDS experts... said we were wrong to try to limit people's sexual freedom. Worse, they had the financial power to force their casual-sex agendas upon us....

Continue reading my column today, "Linking U.S. teen pregnancies and AIDS in Africa," on WorldNetDaily.com.

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