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BY LifeSiteNews.com By LifeSiteNews.com StaffWASHINGTON, November 4, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The debate over abstinence education in the United States went up a few notches yesterday with ‘safe sex’ proponents storming the stage at an abstinence education conference. At the “Strengthening Programs Through Scientific Evaluation” conference, hosted by the Health and Human Services Office of Population Affairs and Administration for Children and Families, activists opposed to abstinence education, physically accosted Deputy Assistant to the President, Claude Allen. While abstinence education proponents maintained a professional environment, Allen was aggressively overcrowded as safe sex proponents attempted to take over the podium, eyewitnesses report.After police removed the demonstrators, Allen gave a message of strong support for abstinence education because it gives the best chances for youth to become healthy, well adjusted adults. Abstinence Clearinghouse, an organization involved in the promotion of abstinence education, reports that the group which initiated the violence was Housing Works, which like other ‘safe sex’ proponents advocates theÂusual explicit, condom-based sex education.Abstinence Clearinghouse has called on prominent safe sex education proponents to condemn the violence at the conference. http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/anti-abstinence-education-activists-attack-speaker-at-abstinence-conference/

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