(CNSNews.com) – A provision in the recently passed House health care reform bill (H.R. 3962) creates a grant program to reward groups that promote contraceptive use among teens.

Known as the "Healthy Teen Initiative to Prevent Teen Pregnancy," the bill’s provision creates a federal grant program that would use taxpayer dollars to fund “evidence based” programs that aim to reduce teen pregnancies.

“Amounts received by a State under this section shall be used to conduct or support evidence-based education programs (directly or through grants or contracts to public or private nonprofit entities, including schools and community-based and faith-based organizations) to reduce teen pregnancy or sexually transmitted diseases,” the bill reads...