Things That Make You Go Hmmm
American women and families deserve to know how McCain feels on matters such as public funding for contraception, abstinence-only education, and the effectiveness of condoms in preventing STDs.
American women and families deserve to know how McCain feels on matters such as public funding for contraception, abstinence-only education, and the effectiveness of condoms in preventing STDs.
Gloria Feldt | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics
Looking at his statements about abortion in the big picture, Obama's character begins to appear as someone who is quick to deflect, demur, defer to his challengers.
AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Skeptical states are shoving aside millions of federal dollars for abstinence education, walking away from the program the Bush adm...
Scott Swenson | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
In trying to "Swift Boat" Obama on comprehensive, age-appropriate, sex ed, the abstinence-only crowd is, in reality, just trying to rally the narrow social conservative base for McCain.
Sascha Elise Cohen | Posted 06.12.2008 | Media
Sexual naiveté and repression make for a bad wedding present. Wow, thanks honey, you don't know a uterus from a uvula! I'm so glad I married someone who thinks we pee out of our belly buttons!
Think Progress | Posted 06.03.2008 | Living
On Sunday, the Washington Post reported that the National Abstinence Education Association (NAEA) is launching a $1 million "Parents for Truth" campai...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.30.2008 | Living
The Daily Show broadened the Miley Cyrus/Vanity Fair photo hullabaloo story on Tuesday night's show, and did a segment on teen sex. Jon and the corres...
Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics
Over the past decade we have spent over 1.3 billion in Federal dollars on abstinence-only education, event though these programs are ineffective and often contain false information.
Keli Goff | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
Perhaps Michelle Malkin and her conservative cohorts found Obama's comments on sex education so disturbing because of the president's oh-so impressive record on the issue.
Rev. Astrid Storm | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
I'm no longer a student of virginity. It's not a divine mandate as far as I can tell. But I'm still a student of Christianity.
Shelby Knox | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
The last thing anyone, male or female, needs on a college campus is a rancorous and harmful debate about the merits of sex or no sex.
Sarah Seltzer | Posted 03.31.2008 | Living
In order to enable teens to gain knowledge, we first have to trust teens. And like the viewers who can't stand Sophie on In Treatment, there are far too many lawmakers who would rather push them out of view.
Shelby Knox | Posted 03.13.2008 | Living
America has to get over its squeamishness about teens and sex: not talking about it for the past 20 years has proven ineffective, to say the least.
Cristina Page | Posted 02.26.2008 | Politics
Iraq is not the only unpopular war Bush started that McCain hopes to continue. The war on Americans' sex lives is another and McCain has already proven himself a good, loyal general.
Maria Kefalas | Posted 01.22.2008 | Politics
When you look at the rest of the world where teenage childbearing has become a problem of another time, it is maddening to see policymakers in the U.S. so perplexed.
Cecile Richards | Posted 12.28.2007 | Politics
Teen sex and unintended pregnancy are everywhere. In fact, the only place these topics aren't being discussed are in health classes in high schools.
James Wagoner | Posted 12.06.2007 | Politics
Not a single amendment was offered in the House by pro-choice "champions" to bring a halt to the funding of programs that spread ignorance in the era of AIDS.
AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 12.06.2007 | Living
In a troubling reversal, the nation's teen birth rate rose for the first time in 15 years, surprising government health officials and reviving the bit...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics
An epidemic so close to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue can't help but make one wonder if federal policy, or non-policy, is at the nucleus of the AIDS health catastrophe.
James Wagoner | Posted 11.05.2007 | Politics
The Democrats' windfall was larger than what Bush had been able to obtain from the prior Republican-controlled Congress.
Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 11.05.2007 | Politics
Just say no to programs that don't provide full information to young people. Just say no to programs that cause young people to feel shameful or fearful of their sexuality.
Jessie Gaskell | Posted 10.29.2007 | Politics
Gloria Feldt | Posted 10.23.2007 | Politics
Bush ardently continues his pattern of filling the position of the administrator of our nation's major family planning program with a person who fundamentally opposes birth control, Dr. Susan Orr.
Rev. Debra Haffner | Posted 10.22.2007 | Politics
Many teens can be helped to rethink their decisions about sex. But not all of them. And that's where the Portland school board got it right.
Abigail Jones and Marissa Miley | Posted 10.19.2007 | Politics
Congratulations, Portland, Maine. You've admitted what so many deny: teens are sexually active, and we need to help them stay safe and make smart choices.
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Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics