So, unsurprisingly, this administration is looking to increase those rates by the most effective means possible — abstinence-only sex education. The administration is pulling federal funding from fact-based, comprehensive sex education programs for supposedly violating their new criteria for the 16-year-old, $100 million Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program. Via New York Times:The new criteria say that grant recipients must teach abstinence as the only means to prevent teen pregnancy. Young women should recognize “ovulation as the central event and primary indicator of hormonal health and fertility.” We know what works when it comes to preventing teen pregnancy: comprehensive sex-education (and smartphones).