/ By Bruce Ackerman

Abstinence-Only money refused by states [VIDEO]

Jessica Valenti: Finally, some good news...

April 13, 2007 |

I don't know why Jessica says there isn't any good news, especially when she broke the news that Bush's, abstinence-only specialist, Dr. Quack Quack was dumped just a couple of weeks back, but maybe the piles of bad news obscure the good...

In any case, here's Feministing's Jessica Valenti on the recent trend for states to refuse abstinence-only money from the Feds...

"By the way, here's the article I mention in the video. And also check out Ann's recent column on the subject."

Evan Derkacz is an AlterNet editor. He writes and edits PEEK, the blog of blogs.

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