“LAST month,” warned Debra Haffner, president of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), “the Federal Government released guidelines for a new program that has as its ‘exclusive’ purpose teaching the social, psychological, and health gains to be realized by abstaining from sexual activity.”
Miss Haffner’s April letter sounded the tocsin for a massive state-by-state effort, mounted in the legislatures and the press, to block the teaching of abstinence in the schools. So when public health officials from all fifty states, contra SIECUS, submitted grant applications to install such programs, conservatives counted it a coup.
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