Judith Vogtli, director of an upstate New York-based abstinence organisation called ProjecTruth, is worried that the golden age of "abstinence-only" education may have come to an end. George Bush junior helped increase funding for this kind of sex education-which focuses on chastity as the way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, and discusses condoms only in terms of failure-to over $175m a year. The fate of that money, and of abstinence education itself, is uncertain under a new administration and Congress.rnMs Vogtli need only wait a few weeks. Barack Obama will submit the first draft of his budget to Congress later this month. In the meantime, her organisation, funded entirely by a government grant, is trying to go about business asrnusual. That means teaching about abstaining from sex, drugs and alcohol in New York schools and holding its sixth annu-al abstinence Creativ-ity Contest, to which students submitted essays, poems, art-rnwork and music on the theme of "Waiting is easier because..."
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