Lee Terry: “according to our Nebraska Health and Human Services, since the program was implemented in 1996, we in Nebraska have…”

“according to our Nebraska Health and Human Services, since the program was implemented in 1996, we in Nebraska have brought this program to 15,000 students. It takes time to get a program like this up and running, the curriculum set, the standard set so they can move forward. 15,000 students is only in the last couple of years. But to exemplify the message that the gentleman just gave, let me read a letter from Girls and Boys Town. It used to be Boys Town, but they changed name to Girls and Boys Town. In this letter it says, ``Risk reduction sexuality education has been funded for many years. We are asking only for an equal opportunity to promote risk elimination. Changing the definition of abstinence to include birth control information and promotion will make it nearly impossible to tell which approach is the most effective in keeping our youth safe from disease and out-of-wedlock programs.'' The counselors and the people that have developed the program at Girls and Boys Town are national leaders in this, and that is what they say: It confuses the message. They simply want the opportunity, when we have had years of funding sex education and reduction, let us go to prevention and teach that message.”