MedPol: Abstinence Education Ideological AssHattery

"We don't need a study, if I remember my biology correctly, to show us that those people who are sexually abstinent have a zero chance of becoming pregnant or getting someone pregnant or contracting a sexually transmitted disease," said Wade Horn, the assistant secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) in charge of federal abstinence funding.

And the right wonders why the rest of us say that conservatives are anti-science? Since any sort of study addresses whether "people who are sexually abstinent have a zero chance of becoming pregnant or getting someone pregnant or contracting a sexually transmitted disease." Thanks, ass clown. Since THAT's what's up for debate!

I've ranted on abstinence education before for its amazing ineffectiveness. I live in the world of Evidence-Based Medicine. In EBM, we like to know that things we do lead to results. And almost every study that's ever been done by an impartial epidemiologist says that abstinence education is a waste of money and ideologically-centered and can actually lead to increased rates of STD-transmission because of a decrease in unprotected sex. Since 10 million years of evolution hasn't led us to be, at the basest level, really horny creatures.

Ideology wastes money. And last time I checked, we're a little short on that. We don't need balance. We need objectivity.