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'Safe sex' message not effective on young, says author

An author and expert on abstinence education says Planned Parenthood promotes so-called "comprehensive sex education" while virtually ignoring the only proven method of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease.



Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, author of Smart Sex: Finding Life-Long Love in a Hook-Up World, says Planned Parenthood aggressively advocates contraception, but admits that their methods do not work for their target audience.

"The target audience for that is the young, the poor, and the unmarried," the author explains. "But it turns out that contraception is much more likely to fail for the young than for the older, for the unmarried than for the married, and for the poor than for the rich. Planned Parenthood's own statistics demonstrate that."

According to Morse, the federal government spends $12 in contraception and condom education for every $1 in abstinence-only education. She argues that comprehensive sex education is vastly overrated and promotes "quite a lot of very misleading information."

Morse points out that of low-income teenage girls, 70 percent become pregnant while using condoms, while the percentage of pregnancies that occur from abstinence is zero percent.