51.   Comprehensive sex education in schools often presents abstinence as a choice, along with the use of contraception.

52.   Comprehensive sex education is on the ropes throughout the country, pummeled by the religious right.

53.   Critics say the CDC is trying to foist explicit sex education on states and will force Ohio to adopt a health and sex education state proficiency test.

54.   Dan Richey remembers a time not so long ago when abstinence was seen as hopelessly unrealistic, an old-fashioned value with no place in modern sex education.

55.   Doggone but it seems that those most opposed to sex education are those most in need of it.

56.   Dr. Mary Steichen Calderone, the grande dame of sex education, died Saturday at the Kendal at Longwood nursing home in Kennett Square, Pa.

57.   Dr. Elders, a target of Republicans and conservative Democrats, condoned teaching about masturbation as part of sex education.

58.   Elders, an advocate of sex education for teen-agers, had said discussion of masturbation might be appropriate in a sex education curriculum.

59.   Elders was forced out of office last year amid continuing controversy on her support for extensive sex education and abortion on demand.

60.   Family planning experts believe that greater sex education and availability of contraceptive devices has helped keep the number of abortions in Western Europe down.