Texas Measure Cuts HIV Funds, Boosts Abstinence Education

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AUSTIN, TX --Texas would cut $3 million from programs to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases and spend that money instead on abstinence education under a contentious Republican-sponsored measure tucked into the state budget Tuesday night.

The GOP-controlled House overwhelmingly approved the budget amendment, but not before a tense exchange with Democrats that veered into the unusually personal.

Republican state Rep. Stuart Spitzer, a doctor and the amendment's sponsor, at one point defended the change by telling the Texas House that he practiced abstinence until marriage. The first-term lawmaker said he hopes schoolchildren follow his example, saying, "What's good for me is good for a lot of people."

Democrat state Rep. Harold Dutton asked Spitzer if abstinence worked for him.

"It did," Spitzer replied. "I've had sex with one woman in my life and that's my wife."

"Is that the first woman you asked?" Dutton replied.

Shouts of "Decorum!" soon echoed on the House floor as the back-and-forth intensified. Efforts by Democrats to put the debate in writing for the record - usually a perfunctory request - failed.

The measure is a long way from final approval. It must still survive budget negotiations with the Senate, although that chamber is equally dominated by conservatives.

Texas in 2013 had the third-highest number of HIV diagnoses in the country, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control. Texas also has one of the highest teen birth rates, and its public schools are not required to teach sex education.

Another Republican-sponsored amendment that passed Tuesday night would prevent schools from distributing sex education materials from abortion providers.

http://abc13.com/politics/texas-bill-cuts-hiv-funds-boost-abstinence-education/600143/

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TX Repugs!

Confederate Southern Baptist Bible Humpers!

Repug "science" proves pre-marital abstinence education works!

TX Repugs also have cut Planned Parenthood in TX, killing stuff like peri-natal care, free contraception drugs, cancer screening for poor women, even white rural women who STUPIDLY vote Repug.

PP clinics replaced by Pregnancy Crisis Centers that LIE to women, like abortion causes cancer, sterility, death, abortion is reversible etc, etc.

Repugs UP everything they touch. And you Repug voters have no evidence to the contrary.

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"What's good for me is good for a lot of people."

Your legislators in action, folks.

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"What's good for me is good for a lot of people."

Your legislators in action, folks.

"I couldn't get laid until I was 29, everybody should do like I did!"

[Wild Cobra]

Yawn.

Once again, no bill number given.

To democrats, anything under a 10% increase is a cut. Therefore, I want to see the text of the amendment and the bill.

Anyone capable of finding it?

I did a quick search, but don't have time to find it tonight. I hope that the originator of this thread will have the scruples to find the bill for us. The news if often biased you know.

[ElNono]

Yawn.

Once again, no bill number given.

To democrats, anything under a 10% increase is a cut. Therefore, I want to see the text of the amendment and the bill.

Anyone capable of finding it?

I did a quick search, but don't have time to find it tonight. I hope that the originator of this thread will have the scruples to find the bill for us. The news if often biased you know.

here, it's an amendment to the budget:

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodo...B00001H268.PDF

and here's the amendment to the amendment:

http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/tlodo...B00001H269.PDF

What now?

[Spurminator]

Yawn.

Once again, no bill number given.

To democrats, anything under a 10% increase is a cut. Therefore, I want to see the text of the amendment and the bill.

Anyone capable of finding it?

I did a quick search, but don't have time to find it tonight. I hope that the originator of this thread will have the scruples to find the bill for us. The news if often biased you know.

Maybe if you're too lazy to look it up yourself, and too skeptical of a network news article on the subject, you should just refrain altogether from commenting. There's not exactly an overwhelming demand for your opinion on any topic's relevance.

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WC is like a baby bird: can't be bothered to chew and digest his own meal.

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unless of course, the source agrees with his ideological prejudices. in that case, he's more like the frog who swallows his dinner whole, based on a reflex.

[CavsSuperFan]

Back in my day abstinence was taught without the laughter that is heard today from young people…Abstinence is the only sure way to prevent the horrible STD’s that we have today…

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ing hilarious. The Puritanical Christian Taliban Bible humpers war on (teen) sex

What happened when a medical professor live-tweeted her son’s sex-ed class on abstinence


I can't stand this. They're teaching "abstinence stories" that worked and non-abstinence" stories that "led to consequences."

The whole lesson here is "sex is part of a terrible lifestyle. Drugs, unemployment, failure to finish school -- sex is part of the disaster"

"You'll find a good girl. If you find one that says 'no,' that's the one you want." HE ACTUALLY JUST SAID THAT.

Now the woman is up. "Sometimes condoms fail."

"We are going to roll this dice 8 times. Every time your number comes up, in pretend your condom failed and you get a paper baby." JESUS!!!

Paper babies are being handed out to EVERYONE. They have ALL HAD CONDOM FAILURE AND THE WHOLE CLASS IS PREGNANT.

the princicpal:

"I am very concerned by the utter lack of civility I see conveyed in the tweets and the behavior the tweeter admits to exhibiting in the classroom."

but he has NO "CONCERN" about the absolute BULL about abstinence and contraception.

Dreger said that the program was “terror-based” if not necessarily abstinence-only.
“Here’s what these visiting ‘educators’ were telling those kids: Condoms fail. They fail so often, they are pointless. There is no birth control except condoms. So if you have sex, you will end up with a pregnancy, and there is no abortion—you have to have that baby. And you will be shamed,”
http://trove.com/a/What-happened-when-a-medical-professor-live-tweeted-her-son%E2%80%99s-sex-ed-class-on-abstinence.U8MjI

Repug Michigan!

Repugs!

Abstinence policy works!

Christian Taliban!

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The Truth About Abstinence-Only Programs

http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/pub...-only-programs

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And of course, the Congressional Repugs pander to the Christian Bible humping Puritian Taliban

Congress Quietly Increases Funding for Abstinence-Only Programs

le V Sec. 510 program that funds the implementation of ineffective and stigmatizing abstinence-only-until-marriage (AOUM) programs. The bill also increases funding toward the grants by $25 million annually. What is more, a new provision in the bill requires unused le V AOUM funds to be made available to states implementing programs that adhere to strict, eight-point—and harmful—definitions of abstinence education; such funds previously would have been returned to the general treasury.

Decades of research demonstrate that AOUM programs fail to achieve their stated goal of promoting abstinence among young people. What is more, with no requirement for AOUM programs to provide information on condoms and contraception, these initiatives withhold life-saving information about sexuality-related topics—including HIV—thus failing to equip young people with the information and skills they need to ensure healthy decision making throughout their lives.

Since 1982, more than $1.7 billion in federal money has been spent on programs that are damaging to young people and fail to provide opportunities to learn vital information and skills that they need. In the past, a collective outcry from young people, parents, educators, and medical and public health professionals has been successful in reducing spending on AOUM programs.

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/20...ality+Check%29

Puritanical sicko America, scared to ing death of, obsessed with hiding female nipples and but thrilled with "side boobs" and cleavage to the navel.

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GOP "Abstinence Only" Rep Cassidy's unwed teen daughter is pregnant. Can he work AND be good father?

Co-sponsor of Abstinence Only legislation, Rep. Bill Cassidy (R) announced his unwed, 17 year old daughter is pregnant. Not long ago, Matt Lauer asked a female CEO if she could work and be a good mother. At the time, many people wondered why men are not asked the same type of question.

GOP Rep. Bill Cassidy's idea of a good father is a father who promotes abstinence only. In fact, Rep. Bill Cassidy co-sponsored the abstinence only bill in the US Congress which is led "Abstinence Education Reallocation Act of 2013" ... hmmm ...

Cassidy's Abstinence Act would:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/7...be-good-father

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july 2014 story