WASHINGTON — Concern over sex education is alive and well in the nation’s capital. The political and ethical debate over what to teach teenagers about sex is being reinvigorated after a recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that one in four teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease. Now some say the study, the first of its kind, reveals why it’s so important to teach teens not to have sex at all; others argue that the study proves that federally funded abstinence-only education isn’t working. Stoking the fire, a study published in the April edition of the Journal of Adolescent Health found that those who received comprehensive sex education were 50 percent less likely to become pregnant than those who received abstinence-only education. The study also found that those who received comprehensive sex education were 60 percent less likely to become pregnant than those who received no sex education at all. ‘I do think that there’s strong evidence that comprehensive sex education is more effective at preventing teen pregnancies,’ said Pamela Kohler, lead author of the study and program manager at the University of Washington’s Center for AIDS and STD. ‘I […]