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Groups angry as Deval axes abstinence cash
Save the Children! 
Just do it! Groups angry as Deval axes abstinence cash
By Jessica Fargen
Boston Herald Health & Medical Reporter
Boston Urban Youth Foundation coordinator Calvin Chu, center. (Staff photo by Mark Garfinkel)
Friday, July 13, 2007
Legislators and conservative groups are gearing up for a showdown on Beacon Hill after Gov. Deval Patrick slashed a $700,000 federal abstinence grant from the budget, dealing a huge blow to a Dorchester group that provides the bulk of the state’s abstinence education.
“We’ll have to scale way back, which would be really tragic,” said Rebecca Ray, director of Healthy Futures in Dorchester, which teaches 7,000 middle schoolers a year to wait until marriage to have sex. “Teachers and students have been calling the governor saying, ‘Please don’t cut it.’ It’s the youth who are going to lose out if this program goes away.”
The group, which contracts with the state to administer the grant, would lose $500,000, about half its annual budget. The remaining $200,000 pays for a state-run evaluation of the program.
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRe...icleid=1011057
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