This section below is from here http://www.moappp.org/Documents/articles/2006/SantelliAbstinenceonlyEducationReviewPaper.pdf  .  Notice in particular the last line, I put it in quotations. 
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Pregnancy
Among all respondents, 7.3% reported a pregnancy, al-
though this was more common among females (10.2%) than
males (4.7%) (p ? .001). In univariate analyses, increased
odds for teen pregnancy were signi?cantly associated with
older age, black race, lower household income, noncentral
city metropolitan residence, and nonintact family unit status
(p ? .05) (Table 3).
In multivariate analyses adjusting for age, gender, race,
income, residence, and family intactness, abstinence-only
sex education was not signi?cantly associated with reported
teen pregnancy when compared with no sex education (OR-
adj ? .7, 95% CI ? .38 –1.45, p ? .38). However adoles-
cents who reported having received comprehensive sex ed-
ucation were signi?cantly less likely to report a teen
pregnancy compared with those who received no sex edu-
cation at all (ORad j ? .4, 95% CI ? .22–.69, p ? .001). The
causal pathway intermediary of birth control use at last
sexual intercourse was also associated with a decreased
likelihood for reported pregnancy (ORadj ? .3, 95% CI ?
.13–.48, p ? .001), adjusted for the same characteristics as
teen pregnancy.

“Finally, when comparing adolescents who
reported receiving a comprehensive sex education with
those who received an abstinence-only education, compre-
hensive sex education was associated with a 50% lower risk
of teen pregnancy.”
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That would mean 95 abortions in Utah in 2007 could have been prevented Dave.  Since 1847 the state of Utah has executed 51 people who were convicted in our Justice System.  In 2007 alone we allowed the execution of 191 children who did nothing except having parents who didn’t use a condom.    I know you don’t hate children Dave, none of you guys do.  You are all very family oriented.  However, this idea of abstinence only education, or even worse statistically with zero public sexual education, is causing abortions to happen.  You are coddling the problem instead of getting honest about what is happening.  I know you are not for abortions in ideology and faith, but you are causing abortions to happen through policy.

Being a Democrat, I joke with Paul about how we give out abortions for party favors or want to pass laws to put abortion-o-matics in 7/11 parking lots.  The general conception of Democrats is that we just love abortion.  It’s not true though.   My faith (although not LDS) is very clear in defining that the first precept of living a moral life is to “refrain from destroying living creatures”.  Human life is defined to begin at conception by my faith.  Therefore getting an abortion or even advising someone to get an abortion is out of the question.  As my wife will tell you, I don’t even kill the errant spider or bug that makes it into the house, catch and release only.

However, this poses a dilemma.  Our reality is dictated by many factors, not just faith alone.  I am willing to accept that there is often times more harm done when a child is conceived unwillingly such as with rape or incest.  That is a reality and while I would never consult someone to get an abortion, I would understand their reason for doing it.  For all other instances I feel as though we are the problem. This all or none strategy with abstinence is causing a loss of life because parents are not being honest about the reality that teenagers have sex.  There are two major indicators in those studies of what makes someone more likely to have have sex and ultimately to have an abortion.  The biggest factor is a lack of sexual education, and the second biggest factor seems to be the income level of the parents.   Of the two sex ed is much easier thing to fix as opposed to solving poverty.

How many children have to die Dave before we start getting real that this policy is bad?  What is so wrong with accepting that while we may not be able to save every child, at least we can promote not killing them?

http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/state-data/state-profile.aspx?state=utah

I don’t think abstinence is too lofty. It certainly is getting more and more challenging, which is all the more reason for responsible parents, churches, schools, whatever the combination (I don’t know the answer to the “optimal” sex ed set up) to be a part of the solution. I don’t think we’re at the point of just giving in and saying it’s unrealistic so let’s pass out the condoms.

The latest CDC figures on abortions (for adolescents) in Utah, that I could find, are from 2007:

Age No.
<15 17 
15    33
16    54
17    87
18    220
19    252
Total: 663

In 2008 (the closest year to 2007 I could quickly find the data for), there were 426,731 females aged 10-19 in Utah. So 663 of 426,731 is 0.15% of that population. Some would argue a state-enforced education program for all 426,731 females would be a bit of an overreach when trying to help prevent a situation that has happened to 0.15% of the female 10-19 population. Granted, government sex ed programs do more than try to stop girls from having to face the choice of abortion. But those numbers would seem to support someone who would say the government sex ed program is too far-reaching in its scope.
 

Also I don’t know that leaving sexual education solely up to parents is a great idea.  While it may have been a good idea in your life experiences, I can direct you to quite a few therapists who work in child sexual abuse who can give a litany of reasons why leaving sex eduction up to family members is a bad idea.

Although there was a South Park episode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_Condom_Use which kind of argues your point so who knows.