Abstinence Education

Sex, Teens and Risk: Conservatives Have It Wrong

James Peron | Posted 04.11.2012

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Abstinence-only programs don't exist "for the kids," or because of risks. They exist almost wholly because Republicans -- and Democrats in Tennessee -- are trying to placate a religious minority, even if it means exposing teens to greater harms.

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Wisconsin Must Return to Comprehensive Sex Education

The Badger Herald | Posted 05.20.2012

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It is time for Wisconsin's legislators to learn to accept reality. The fact that young people have sex is not changing. What must change, however, is the return to comprehensive and honest sex education for our youth.

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Abstinence-Only Sex Education Bill In Utah Prohibits Teaching Contraception

Posted 04.24.2012

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A bill requiring sex education classes to teach an abstinence-only curriculum moved closer to becoming a law in Utah Wednesday. The state House pas...

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New Pornography Regulations in L.A.: Are They Addressing the Right Problem?

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 04.09.2012

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The ordinance will not be very effective at influencing the overall depiction of sex in imagery and media. This outcome is all the more lamentable because encouraging condom use is so important. Let's look at the facts.

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New National Sex Ed Standards Encourage 'Safe Sex,' Sexual Identity, Anti-Bullying

AP | By KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 01.09.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Young elementary school students should use the proper names for body parts and, by the end of fifth grade, know that sexual orientation...

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Scott Walker's New Jobs Plan: Abstinence-Only Education

Mother Jones | Kate Sheppard | Posted 11.16.2011

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A bill launched during Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's jobs session and nearing passage in the Legislature would repeal significant portions of the stat...

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WATCH: The Science of Sex Education

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.15.2012

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What is the most effective way to educate young people about sex? What can we do to minimize unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs)? Does abstinence-only education work? Some people think so.

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Senate Bill Mandates Abstinence Focused Sex-Ed

Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.03.2012

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A bill that would require schools in Wisconsin to promote abstinence and marriage in sexual education classes has passed in the Senate, the Northweste...

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The Campaign Against the Campaign Against Health

Rupert Russell | Posted 12.10.2011

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This week a few brave politicians stood up to protest the political attacks aimed squarely at women's health.

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The Sex Ed Women Really Need

Allison Gaudet Yarrow | Posted 10.28.2011

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Where I grew up, in the buckle of the Bible Belt, sex, when it was discussed at all, was presented as something to be feared -- it bred diseases and u...

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Please Protect the Innocent Conjugal Sex Fruit

Mark Morford | Posted 09.11.2011

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Not so many years ago, we laughed at a whole kookball buffet of socio-pathetic phenomena: Hummers as mutant status symbols. Promise rings. Gay meth-snorting megachurch pastors. Ahh, simpler times. It all seems so innocent now.

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Teen Pregnancy Rates Highest In South

The Hill's Healthwatch | Mike Lillis | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, for instance, 2008 birth rates were less than 25 per 1,000 teens aged 15 to 19, CDC found. I...

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Bristol Palin and Mike "The Situation": What Don't You Understand?

Neil Cole | Posted 05.25.2011

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What do you get when you combine the country's most visible proponent of abstinence, the most in-your-face seeker of casual sex, a pack of gold condom...

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Why We Should Read "Soft Pornography"

Isabel Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Concerns about Slaughterhouse-Five, Speak, and Twenty Boy Summer highlight a deeper and more troubling belief -- that is, that young people should be prevented from exposure to anything that discusses sex and sexual activity in any way.

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Governors Apply For Abstinence-Only Funds From Health Law They Opposed

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Two governors who were vocal opponents of health care reform are now requesting federal grants for abstinence-only education that are funded by that v...

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The Myth of the Teen Pregnancy Epidemic

Kierra Johnson | Posted 11.17.2011

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Teenage pregnancy isn't the epidemic. The lack of information and support for people to make healthy decisions about their lives is the true epidemic. The culture of shame and scapegoating around sex is the real problem.

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Democrats Spend $250 Million on Ineffective Abstinence Programs

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011

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Imagine a quarter of a billion dollars, approved by Democrats for programs which the vast majority of them know don't work. The money was attached to ...

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In Colorado Springs, Abstinence-Only Education

Colorado Springs Independent | By Anthony Lane, J. Adrian Stanley and Pam Zubeck | Posted 05.25.2011

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The 2007 legislation may have been a victory for advocates of comprehensive sex education in Colorado. But in the larger war over what gets taught in ...

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Who Put Failed Ab-Only Programs Back in Health Care Reform?

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011

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By James Wagoner, President, Advocates for Youth Lost in the shuffle of analysis of the new health care reform legislation, is the fact that Democrat...

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Marry Me, Bristol: Christian Hypocri-sex, Pt. II

Rob Asghar | Posted 05.25.2011

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I readily concede that moral boundaries and restraint are crucial to good living. But I am suspicious of the Pharisaic distortions, namely an irrational rigidity, or the sorts of bizarre loopholes and rationalizations common to those who take abstinence vows.

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Bristol Palin: Speaker for Hire

Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

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Isn't there a bit of hypocrisy in having Ms. Palin be a spokesperson for sexual abstinence and against teen pregnancy? That is like having BP advocate for environmental conservation.

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Profile Of A Teen Mother

Reproductive Justice | Posted 12.22.2011

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I see a lot of teenage girls having kids, and it's not until you have your child and you're taking care of your child that you understand that it's really not about you anymore, that you're living for somebody else. I just feel like wait, if you can, just wait-until it's the right time for you.

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Sex Ed in Utah

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011

My legislative district in St. George, Utah, is conservative, and I am conservative. Yet, I am running legislation to promote contraceptive education. Why? Well, I'll tell you.

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GOP Brings "Just Say No" Message to Health Care, Economic Stimulus, Sex Ed

Neil McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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For the Grand Old Party, "no" is the watchword on health care, the stimulus, deficit reduction and pretty much anything else proposed by the Obama administration.

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Obama Can't Make Eye Contact With Abortion Rights

Reproductive Justice | Posted 05.25.2011

What was truly disappointing about President Obama's first year in office was the way that he flinched every time support for abortion came up in policy debates. In many ways, this has made things worse.

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