Many major news organizations accepted at face value Obama's denial that he backed comprehensive sex education for kindergartners. Reporters should have read the actual text of the bill.
Neither the LA Times nor Reuters reported that comprehensive sex education -- condoms and contraceptives -- receives 12 times more funding than no-sex-before-marriage programs.
For every study that disparages the abstinence approach, there are many others that point to its success and suggest that effective, long-term programs should be given more funding—not less.
