CNN reported July 11 that according to the National Institutes of Health, U.S. teen pregnancies in 2006 rose for the first time since 1991. Translation: "One-third of girls in the U.S. got pregnant before age 20."

In the same article, CNN reported a "striking decrease" in the percentage of eighth graders smoking, down from 10 percent in 1996 to 3 percent in 2007.

While federal health experts were at a loss to explain the spike in teen pregnancies, a Centers for Disease Control official said smoking abated due to "efforts convincing kids and adults not to smoke," according to CNN.

So teaching smoking abstinence works, reminiscent of last decade's "Just Say No" drug abstinence campaign.

It would make sense to teach kids to abstain from the harmful behavior of premarital sex.

But no. The Associated Press reported June 24 that 22 state governors have now rejected federal grant money to teach sexual abstinence, with "participation in the program … down 40 percent over two years."

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Logic would equate increased teen pregnancies with decreased abstinence education.

But the mainstream media incessantly blare the opposite: that abstinence education programs are to blame for all teen sexual aberrancies. This despite the fact abstinence curriculum comprises only 25 percent of all school sex education programs, according to Planned Parenthood's Guttmacher Institute.

Clearly big money has been spent the past decade on a large-scale public relations campaign to vilify school abstinence programs.

The most likely culprits are Planned Parenthood and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States.

Planned Parenthood would obviously condemn abstinence education because it makes its $1 billion annually almost solely from promiscuous sex – grants to teach it, and sales of contraceptives, STD diagnosis and treatment, and abortion.

SIECUS flies under the radar, but watch for quotes in the press by its spokespersons when it comes to all news anti-abstinence. Protégés of the pro-pedophilia sexual psychopath Alfred Kinsey, including a Planned Parenthood executive, founded SIECUS in 1964.

But the anti-abstinence campaign is not only national; it is international. The top headline on the SIECUS website at the time of this writing was, "Putting health before politics: How the United States Senate can fix global HIV/AIDS funding."

Which brings me to a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post June 30 by Rev. Sam Ruteikara, co-chair of Uganda's National AIDS-Prevention Committee, entitled, "Let my people go, AIDS profiteers," a must read:

In the fight against AIDS, profiteering has trumped prevention. AIDS is no longer simply a disease; it has become a multibillion-dollar industry.

In the late 1980s, before international experts arrived to tell us we had it all "wrong," we in Uganda devised a practical campaign to prevent the spread of HIV. We recognized that population-wide AIDS epidemics in Africa were driven by people having sex with more than one regular partner. Therefore, we urged people to be faithful. Our campaign was called ABC (Abstain, or Be Faithful, or use Condoms), but our main message was: Stick to one partner. We promoted condoms only as a last resort. ...

The proportion of Ugandans infected with HIV plunged from 21 percent in 1991 to 6 percent in 2002. But international AIDS experts ... said we were wrong to try to limit people's sexual freedom. Worse, they had the financial power to force their casual-sex agendas upon us. ...

Repeatedly, our ... committee put faithfulness and abstinence into the National Strategic Plan. ... Repeatedly, foreign advisers erased our recommendations. When the document draft was published, fidelity and abstinence were missing. ...

As fidelity and abstinence have been subverted, Uganda's HIV rates have begun to tick back up. Western media have been told this renewed surge of HIV infection is because there are "not enough condoms in Uganda," even though we have many more condoms now than we did in the early 1990s, when our HIV rates began to decline. ...

Telling men and women to keep sex sacred – to save sex for marriage and then remain faithful – is telling them to love one another deeply with their whole hearts. Most HIV infections in Africa are spread by sex outside of marriage: casual sex and infidelity. The solution is faithful love.

So hear my plea, HIV-AIDS profiteers. Let my people go. We understand that casual sex is dear to you, but staying alive is dear to us. Listen to African wisdom, and we will show you how to prevent AIDS.

The fight against abstinence is worldwide and not so much ideological as it is monetary.

The fight against abstinence is worth untold billions of dollars.

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