“The Bush administration’s abstinence-only program is an example of a failed national health care policy directive,” [New York State health commissioner] Daines said, adding that the policy is “based on ideology rather than on sound scientific-based evidence that must be the cornerstone of good public health care policy.”
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According to Daines, the state made the decision based on evidence that the abstinence-only program did little to prevent teen pregnancies. He added that he also objected to the program’s “narrow ideological view, which is not the direction [New York] want[s] to go in for sexual health.” The state should encourage the teaching of condom use and include discussions of abstinence, Daines said.
