Obama seeks to defund abstinence-only program

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s proposal to eliminate funding for Ascend, formerly the National Abstinence Education Association, has the abstinence-only education program president and CEO, Valerie Huber, confused. President Obama’s proposed fiscal year 2017 budget defunds Ascend because it is not “evidence-based,” but according to Huber, that’s nonsense. “The president’s recommendation to Congress is really indefensible,” Huber told The Christian…