Washington Post--
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
$77 Billion — down 2%
The Health budget also set aside $178 million to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, but slashed funding for programs that limited themselves exclusively to teaching Sexual Abstinence. The budget emphasized that it was devoting money to teen-pregnancy prevention approaches that had been proven to work, in effect saying there was no scientific evidence that favored abstinence-only programs over those that situated abstinence education within a larger framework that included teaching teenagers how to practice safe sex if they chose not to be abstinent.
Sources: Whitehouse.gov, Washington Post, MSNBC, Today Show, Flickr
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