Teen pregnancy and disease soar under Bush abstinence policy

The name Bush was almost synonymous with pushing an ideological agenda.

Instead of focusing on issues like the economy and health care, this often meant fighting the timeworn culture wars to build a facade of phony populism.

Central to this whirlwind of pseudoscientific deception was Bush's dominionist-driven education policy that decreed that the only sex ed to be taught in America's public schools would be abstinence-only.

Now America is seeing the results of this failed policy - which are ignored by the American media but reported in detail by Britain's Guardian newspaper.

The CDC reports that the rate of teenage pregnancy soared under the federally decreed abstinence-only policy. Gonorrhea - which had been declining - saw a vast increase as well. The rate of AIDS in adolescent males nearly doubled. Syphilis is skyrocketing too.

Of course, apologists for abstinence-only education insist that this means there wasn't enough emphasis on their failed pseudoscience.

Only in BushWorld is expanding a failed policy passed off as some great innovation.

(Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/20/bush-teen-pregnancy-cdc-report)