[bryanthompson]

While abstinence has a 0 percent failure rate, doing nothing to prevent pregnancy has an 85 percent failure rate, the group found.

True, abstinence works every time it's tried, but that doesn't mean that teaching abstinence is the equavalent of doing nothing. Abstinence isn't allowed to be taught, becuase apparently you have to be a religious nut to not have sex.