This just in from the great state of Texas:
"Abstinence is the only acceptable birth control": this is the only sex education information teenagers receive in Texan schools. This training is wrapped around a religious message of morality and fear and also teaches that birth control doesn't work.
The teen pregnancy rate in Texas is 50% higher than the national average. Texas also leads the nation in second pregnancies among teens.
It turns out that Texas kids thought that "if birth control doesn't work, why use it?"
Governor Rick Perry swears that abstinence works.
Blueskygirl supposes he is technically correct.
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