Denver, Colo., Mar 20, 2008 / 00:02 am
The former state director of the Colorado Abstinence Education Program has attacked the media coverage of a recent Center for Disease Control (CDC) study about sexually transmitted diseases in teenage girls as “scientifically flawed, medically inaccurate and politically skewed.”
She also criticized the CDC study itself for following a scientifically unsound model.
In an opinion piece in the March 19 edition of the Rocky Mountain News, Carla Adams, former director of Colorado’s federally-funded abstinence program, wrote that Planned Parenthood, Yahoo News, and “national experts” used the release of a CDC report to “create a propaganda war” blaming abstinence education for the increase in STDs.
The CDC recently released data from a 2004 study suggesting that one in four girls in the United States between the ages of 14 and 19 has a sexually transmitted disease.