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Source: The Hill
The Trump administration will shift federal funding aimed at reducing teen pregnancy rates to programs that teach abstinence.
The Department of Health and Human Services announced Friday the availability of grants through the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, a grant program created under President Obama that funds organizations and programs working to reduce teen pregnancy rates.
Except under Trump's HHS, the grants will be geared toward organizations that teach abstinence education to teens instead of the comprehensive sex ed approach the previous administration supported.
In a funding announcement released Friday, the administration announced two tiers of funds for the TPP program. In the first, grantees would have to follow one of two abstinence programs to receive funding.
Read more: http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/384208-trump-admin-announces-abstinence-focused-overhaul-of-teen-pregnancy