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Says the door is not being shut on abstinence programs. the findings from the research paper suggests that this kind of project could be competitive for grants if there is promise that is achieves the goal of teen pregnancy prevention. the study follows by a few days another finding that teen pregnancy rates are rising. up 3% in 2006. but that studty by the prochoice good marker institute evaluated statistics and the pennsylvania z study tracked young people over a period of time, evaluating later behavior. critics say it doesn't represent the bulk of abstinence education programs which take a...

>> reporter: abstinence education may be effective after all in discouraging young people from having sex. the university study compared two groups of sixth and seventh graders. one attending sessions that focused on abstinence and another receiving combined information about abstinence and contraception. only a third of the students in the abstinence group started having sex in the next two years and nearly half in the other group back sexually active. >> it is great to see a study that actually suggests that abstinence may lead to a decrease in pregnancy as well as sexually transmitted disea...

Republican guy, they couldn't even focus on the game. take a look. >> down right there, v-town up by 13 at the break. vice president biden said, hey, look at this. >> that's pretty good. >> let's take a look at the "morning papers." "the los angeles times." the spending plan reflects democratic goals of republicans and barriers the progress. >> and abstinence programs might work. researchers found that sex education classes that focus on encouraging children to remain abstinent can persuade a significant proportion to delay sexual activity. >> and that has worked for barnic barnicle. nasa lead...

Pregnancy, age 15 through 19, that is gone up 3% from 2005 to 2006. abortion went up 1%. what they frame this story as in the "new york times" is as an argument, a commercial, for a contraception instead of abstinence and point to the abstinence programs and funding as the reason for this. but part of this whole picture it comes up in a second study done by the rand institute. they point out the more teens watch sex, they're more likely to indulge in sex and they are also more likely -- twice as likely to become pregnant before age 20. age of 206789 so d so it goes to tv programming and this i...