From the Action Alert sent May 8, 2009
It's true: Yesterday, in his 2010 budget, President Obama eliminated all funding for failed federal abstinence-only-until-marriage sexual health programs. HOORAY!
Work remains to be done—we have to make sure Congress finishes what Obama started—but today, let's celebrate!
Chicago Foundation for Women has long been a voice for funding comprehensive sexual health education instead of abstinence-only. (Read our Policy Brief for details.)
Thanks to you, we flooded President Obama with messages asking him to cut federal abstinence-only
funding and use that money for responsible sexual health education.
In February, we traveled to D.C. with our local and national allies to lobby. We gave the Illinois Congressional delegation the facts about abstinence-only.
And in the coming weeks and months, we will reach out—and ask each of you to do the same—to shape a new sexual health education platform that's medically accurate, age-appropriate and respectful, for the sake of all young women and men.
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