The President in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening January 20, 2004 proposed a doubling of Federal funding for abstinence programs.
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Less than a week after the State of Minnesota released a report stating that its abstinence-only sex education program was not effective in preventing or delaying teenage sexual activity, the Wake County North Carolina school board forged ahead regardless and on January 6, 2004 approved by a 5-3 vote an abstinence-only sex education curriculum for the county’s schools. There are two possibilities: Wake County was either uninformed of the Minnesota report or it deliberately ignored it. “Just Say No” is now the law in Wake County schools.
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Mr. DiStaso–thank you for your reply. I take it that we agree that under Roe the state may not ban abortions in the second trimester, it can only regulate them for maternal health reasons. Your column indicated otherwise.

I have also sent this to Lieberman’s staff.

My only comments are these:

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The year 2003 ended with a reporter allegedly misrepresenting a candidate’s stance on Roe v. Wade, and then both the candidate and the reporter compounding the alleged error by misrepresenting what Roe actually said. The former may have been the result of an error, or a misinterpretation of what the candidate meant, or a deliberate attempt to create a story where none existed. But the latter error by both the candidate and the reporter was sheer ineptitude. And both have gotten away with it, until now.

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