State law will interfere with abstinence grant.

The article reports that Washington may lose federal sex education grants in 2008 because the state legislature passed a requirement for mandatory comprehensive sex education. The author states that the federal abstinence education grants require that any supported program instruct students strictly abstinence as a method to prevent pregnancy or disease, leaving prophylactics completely out. As of January 2008, Washington has already been told its grant would be denied.