Under the Bush administration, such programs have received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.

"It would be more effective," Finer said, "to provide young people with the skills and information they need to be safe once they become sexually active — which nearly everyone eventually will."

Why not make the headline honest? 90%+ of Americans will have premarital sex. I imagine a few of them will even have postmarital sex. Promoting abstinance is like promoting... Well, nothing. I can't think of a single similar thing. Promoting something useless and obviously rejected over something useful and with a point? I would say it's like the cigarette companies pushing the "no link" crap, but it wasn't the government pushing it.