Jacqueline R. Kasun

About the author: Jacqueline R. Kasun is a professor of economics at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, and the author of The War Against Population.

Premarital sexual activity, teen pregnancies, and sexually transmitted diseases have risen with the increase in explicit sexeducation programs in the schools. Thus, little evidence exists that sex education reduces teen sex and illegitimacy as its supporters claim. The best way to reduce teen sex, pregnancy, and abortion rates is to restrict government-funded birth control and abortions.

During the debate over her confirmation in 1993, Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders sketched her strategy for combating teen pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases with her usual sledgehammer bluntness: "I tell every girl that when she goes out on a date—put a condom in her purse." Dr. Elders lamented that schools teach youngsters...