Rejected!

Just Saying No

The state of New Jersey recently turned down about $800,000 in federal money for abstinence-only programs, saying the rules were too restrictive. Telling kids that abstinence is the only sure way to avoid pregnancy and diseases? No problem, says the Garden State. But forbidding teachers from talking about contraception? Or declaring marital sex the “expected standard of human sexual activity”? Fuggedaboudit! With that, New Jersey becomes the fourth state to reject the federal abstinence money, following California, Pennsylvania, and Maine.