Abstinence
If you want a quick way to burn 50 million in cash, you get the Senate to fund a abstinence programme.
With sex education, there has to a moral dimension to any talk regarding the birds and the bees, but to throw a ton of cash at a tactic, that doesn't, has never worked and never will work, is plain crazy.
I don't say this with any glee, because if Abstinence programmes truly worked, I would be totally for it, 100 percent, because anything the cuts teenage pregnancies is a good idea.
If abstinence worked, Bristol Palin wouldn't be a one by one, but she is. If your telling me that have two moralising parents is the best form of birth control going, you are sadly miss informed.
The issue of teenage pregnancies is a complex one, which involves many reasons, some economic, some social.
It as never gone unnoticed with me, that Conservatives have always used the issue of teenage pregnancies, as a means of attacking the African American community. If Bristol Palin, had been one of the Obama girls, we have heard the Conservatives go all in, blaming the Obama's for moral decay, but no, because is white and middle case, it becomes a " Private Matter "
Personally sex education is important, but it has to go beyond the context of purely the mechanics, it has to be set within the context of a loving relationship and at a certain age. You can use all the protection in the world, and sometimes they fail, leading to consequences that impact for generations.