Bush Administration Plans End Run for Abstinence-Only Funds

by: Scott Swenson, RH Reality Check

Abstinence-only cartoon.

    The Bush administration Department of Health and Human Services isn't getting much rest these days, using every moment of its final few months to leave an indelible ideological mark on government.     Last week, the administration, in the person of Robert W. Patterson of the Children, Family and Youth Services Bureau, issued a letter waiving the annual application process and review for the Title V Abstinence-Only State Grant Program.     In the letter obtained by RH Reality Check, Patterson writes, »