This comes from the Washington Post piece:

Bill Smith, vice president of public policy at the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, a comprehensive sex education group that also receives federal funding, said the Waxman report underscored the need for closer monitoring of what he called the “shame-based, fear-based, medically inaccurate messages” being disseminated with tax money. He said the danger of abstinence education lies in the omission of useful medical information.

Isn’t that a danger in so-called “safe sex” lessons, too? Isn’t there always a “danger” a teacher will veer from the full story or, even, facts? Is there anything particularly pernicious about abstinence education other than it’s not what SIECUS types prefer?