Reinstate Abstinence Funding

Yesterday, I was asked why in a letter to the Wisconsin delegation in DC requesting their support for abstinence education funding, I included a final option to defund Planned Parenthood, Advocates for Youth, SIECUS, etc.

I strongly agree that governments must inact critical budget reform and know many of our state delegation were elected because they have pledged to cut spending. If budget reform was the reason abstinence education funding was cut, I would be 100% behind its demise as a temporary measure. But not once have I heard saving tax dollars as a reason for killing off abstinence.

Even though I have witnessed many nonprofit colleagues close their services when they lost government funds, I also know many others who diversified their programming and funding years ago and so far have remained solvent, even if again working as volunteers. However, new federal grants for marriage and fatherhood initiatives have stipulated that abstinence programming could not be included in applications. The truth is social acceptance of unwed sex created all the problems these initiatives address. It makes little sense to spend millions on interventions while funding sexual libertarian organizations. But that is the political power of sexual freedom advocates as we watch our families disintegrate.

It seems logical to me that if the government is amenable to restoring the societal factors that together eradicate poverty--two-parent families, education, jobs, etc.--it must be bold enough to stop funding programs that create or support counter-productive life styles. At the very least, politicians should pay attention to other countries which have let free choice policies with a huge price tag overwhelm their national well-being.

I just gave our state representatives in Congress two ways to support abstinence education: restore funding or defund our opponents. I've been in this game a long time and know "the silent majority" will back abstinence.