I would like to thank on behalf of Human Life Services Senator Specter for providing funding for the education department.

Abstinence for young people is the only certain way to avoid sexually transmitted diseases.

Ms. Lesh, when you made a comment about abstinence prevention, not intervention, that's an interesting concept.

We look forward to your testimony.

Thank you for coming up to Harrisburg, Ms. Leiphart, and we look forward to your testimony.

I regret being a little bit delayed, but I was filing my papers for reelection.

In my budget, this is the President speaking, I propose a grassroots campaign to help inform families about these medical risks.

Thank you very much. Turn now to Ms. Miranda Shipley, Fairfield, Pennsylvania, high school senior and volunteer of Peer Education with the Real Commitment program.

Thank you very much, Rev. Page, for your testimony.

those are funds that you, Senator Specter, were very instrumental in providing.

If we can persuade young people to avoid premarital sex and unintended pregnancies there will be an enormous step forward.

Abstinence education has demonstrated its value in a society where there is so much concern about the morality of the young people and access to abortions.

to encourage right choices we must be willing to confront the dangers young people face, even when they are difficult to talk about.

Rev. Page, you assigned statistics of 65 percent of your teens had a reduction in pregnancy. Can you amplify that just a little more?

We will double Federal funding for abstinence programs so schools can teach this fact of life.

You're against abstinence?

Thank you, Senator Arlen Specter, for funding us for these past few years on carrying out our goals for abstinence-only education.

When you said that you are not only sleeping with the person, you are sleeping with all the people whom he or she had slept with and all the people whom they have slept with, et cetera, I saw a fascinating chart in one of the schools.