“This takes away the main pillar of opposition to abstinence education,” said Robert Rector, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation who wrote the criteria for federal funding of abstinence programs. “I’ve always known that abstinence programs have gotten a bad rap.”

Heritage Foundation: http://www.abstinence.net/library/index.php?entryid=4589

Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/01/AR2010020102628.html?referrer=emailarticle

Family Research Council Press Release: http://www.frc.org/pressrelease/frc-responds-to-new-study-showing-abstinence-education-is-most-effective