Wilson said he did not understand why so many advocacy groups responded so strongly to the report. The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Advocates for Youth and California Democratic Rep. Harry Waxman all said the report demonstrated that abstinence-only education programs waste money.
"What people have misunderstood is that it is not like we have kids in a box and we open the top and throw abstinence education in and nothing else gets in," Wilson said.
"Other grants fund comprehensive sex education, too. As a parent, how I want my kids to be raised is I want them to get all the messages but of course I want to push abstinence as much as I can -- especially at the age of 14."
