Senate Appropriations Committee to Consider Funding Increase for Abstinence-Only Programs

From the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project:

The Senate Appropriations Committee will be voting on legislation the week of June 18th....

A Democratic Congress is poised to give a failed policy - abstinence-only-until-marriage programs - its second-largest funding increase.  The House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee recently voted to increase funding for the Community Based Abstinence Education Program by $27.8 million in fiscal year 2008....

Congress should support reproductive health policies that are effective, save taxpayer dollars and protect the public health.  We are pleased to see that in this same House Appropriations bill, members of the committee approved an increase to Title X, the National Family Planning Program.  But the increase for abstinence-only-until marriage programs is outrageous and unacceptable.

The ACLU urges that you take action on this issue.