While 97% Disagree on Exactly What Third Base Is

The Bush administration and members of the Republican Congress are supporting several $170 MILLION taxpayer funded abstinence-only program which claim as scientific fact that:

• touching a person's genitals "can result in pregnancy"
  
• HIV can be spread via sweat and tears
  
• a 43-day-old fetus is a "thinking person"
  

Several millions of children ages 9 to 18 have been taught these "facts" in federally funded abstinence programs since 1999.

"Something is seriously wrong when federal tax dollars are being used to mislead kids about basic health facts," said Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA), who argues for comprehensive sex education (not lying to children).

"Washington funds false sex lessons", The Guardian, 12/3/2004