A flurry of news stories proclaiming abstinence education does not decrease unwanted pregnancies among unmarried teens, and that teaching it is dangerous, prompted one group to investigate the source of those claims.

The Medical Institute for Sexual Health - a nonprofit organization dedicated to evaluating scientific evidence - examined two recent reports in the Journal of Adolescent Health. The position papers, written by a team headed by John Santelli, maintained that abstinence education is "scientifically and ethically problematic."

The authors claimed that teaching young people to postpone sexual activity until marriage is "inconsistent with commonly accepted notions of human rights." The articles recommend that "children and adolescents (should be ensured) adequate access to confidential sexual- and reproductive-health services."

"Reproductive-health services" is a common liberal euphemism for abortion and condom distribution.

In its analysis titled "The Attack on Abstinence Education: Fact of Fallacy?" the institute examined the methods used by Santelli and found them to be exceptionally flawed.

"We found a significant number of serious omissions, misrepresentations, deviations from accepted practices and opinions presented as facts," the report states. "Logic, if employed, was often faulty."