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President Obama released his budget (pdf) on Thursday that eliminates funding for controversial abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education. The funding, initiated by a Republican Congress and President Clinton in 1996, has been heavily criticized as ineffective. In 2007, Minnesota opted out of federal abstinence money after the Bush administration added new and more conservative mandates to the programs.

Obama is also proposing funding for a new “Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative” to “support community-based and faith-based efforts to reduce teen pregnancy using evidence-based and promising models,” according to the budget document.

The abstinence money that Obama proposes to cut comes from the Community-Based Abstinence Education and Title V Abstinence Education programs, parts of the Social Security system.

The two programs are part of 121 areas that Obama is proposing to cut with his new budget.