31.   Abstinence programs are rising against the backdrop of a steady decline in teen-age pregnancy, for which advocates of both comprehensive sex education and abstinence claim credit.

32.   Admire-Borgelt said a call from the surgeon general was important, particularly given how politically charged the issue of sex education has been.

33.   Allen got a hint of what was coming the day before, when his effort to repeal sex education in the schools failed.

34.   Bush, who opposes abortion, has consistently stressed abstinence as a component of sex education.

35.   But both women feel strongly about sex education, and they are not alone.

36.   But for what amounts to a propaganda ministry offering itself as sex education, money is no object.

37.   But most parents want sex education to cover much more.

38.   But one side says the answer is contraceptives and sex education, while the other favors counseling abstinence.

39.   But questions of sex education and abuse are expected to dominate the discussion.

40.   But she also stressed that more sex education and counseling programs were needed to prevent the unwanted pregnancies.