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Article: Bush gives help for abstinence education.
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- December 22, 2000
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President-elect George W. Bush has given personal assurances that abstinence education will thrive under his administration, say veterans of the issue, one of whom predicts a "real war of ideas."
"I've had conversations with President Bush myself, and he did agree that he would be giving us equal time to the Planned Parenthood message of safe sex," said Leslee Unruh, president of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse in Sioux Falls, S.D.
"So we know abstinence education will grow under his administration. We have his word on that."
"We think he realizes that [abstinence education] is a solution to many different facets of the adolescent ...