For whats its worth, a recent study on the federally funded Title X Family Planning program:
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Based on 2006 statistics, the national family planning program known as Title X (10) prevented 1.94 million pregnancies in the United States, including 400,000 teen pregnancies. According to the study, the 1.94 million pregnancies that were prevented would have resulted in 860,000 unintended births and 810,000 abortions....
...The Title X family planning program began in 1970 as a bipartisan commonsense approach to ensuring that low-income Americans have access to contraceptive services and other preventive health care. By federal law, Title X funds cannot be used to fund abortion services. For almost 40 years, Title X has been the nation's only program dedicated solely to reducing unintended pregnancy by providing contraceptive and related reproductive health care services to low-income women.
New Study Shows Publicly Funded Family Planning Programs Prevent Abortions and Save Taxpayer Money - Planned Parenthood
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IMO, federally funded family planning and preventive services targeted to low income makes more sense and is much effective than federally funded abstinence only education.