LIFE NOSEX SJ

KRT NEWS STORY SLUGGED: NOSEX KRT PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EUGENE LOUIE/SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS (KRT15-March 25) The United States government is hoping to send a message to teens - Just Say No to Premarital Sex. Congress, spurred by studies that showed 50 percent of mothers on welfare first got pregnant as unwed teenagers, recently approved spending $250 million over the next five years on abstinence-only sex education. The money will only be granted to programs teaching abstinence and not to any organization that provides family planning, contraception or abortion services. (SJ) AP, PL, ARR (jak32227) 1998 (COLOR) This photo may be of interest to At-Risk Readers.