In 2003, the federal government devoted $117 million to abstinence education.

It seems unlikely the bill's $50 million a year for abstinence education will be of much help.

A number of government grants to finance sexual abstinence education have been successfully challenged.

But even though Congress said most welfare recipients would have to work, it found $250 million for "abstinence education."

States that promote abstinence education, though, get Federal support.

Years ago, proponents of abstinence education cast the issue in moral terms.

Today, abstinence education is more often cast in terms of the risk of disease.

What I find telling is that about half my students had abstinence education in high school, and yet they are active.

He was regarded as a staunch advocate of abstinence education and family values.