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Nurture vs. Nothing: How Contraception Saves Lives

Monique Ruffin | Posted 04.22.2012 | Politics
Read More: Women's Health, Teen Pregnancy, Contraception Republicans, Contraception Santorum, Contraception Catholic Bishops, Contraception Obama, Contraception Catholic Church, Catholic School Sex, Politics News
Monique Ruffin

Many may be baffled by the current political debate about contraception, but for many women like me, these bishops and politicians may as well be sitting in my living room having a cup of coffee. This debate is personal.

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Mail-Order Condom Program For Teenagers Causes Controversy

Carly Schwartz | Posted 02.19.2012 | San Francisco
Read More: Teenage Pregnancy, Org, Birth Control California Teenagers, Mail-Order Condoms Teenagers, Teen Pregnancy, Birth Control Teenagers, Birth Control, Mail-Order Condoms California Teenagers, Teensource, Mail-Order Condoms California, Mail-Order Condoms, Mail-Order Condoms Free, Mail-Order Condoms San Francisco, San Francisco News

A new program supported by the California Department of Public Health will allow teenagers throughout various parts of the state to order condoms onli...

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'My School Gives Out Free Condoms -- So Why Won't Kids Use Them?'

| Posted 02.15.2012 | Home
Read More: Youth Pregnancy, Teen Abortion, New York Teen Pregnancy, Reproductive Rights, Sex Ed in Schools, Teen Pregnancy, Contraception, Reproductive Health, High School News, Video, Home News

This is a teen-written article from our friends at Youth Communication, a nonprofit organization that helps marginalized youth develop their full pote...

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Sex, Lies and the Teen Pregnancy That Never Was

Edward Wasserman | Posted 04.15.2012 | Media
Read More: Research Ethics, Media Deception, Media Ethics, Teen Pregnancy, Yakima Herald-Republic, Media News
Edward Wasserman

Gaby Rodriguez was a 17-year-old high school honor student in Yakima, Wash., when she hit upon an imaginative senior project on teen pregnancy. She would declare she was pregnant.

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'Anderson' Asks If 'Teen Mom' Glamorizes Teen Pregnancy

Posted 04.14.2012 | TV
Read More: TV Canada, Kailyn Lowry, Video, Teen Mom, Anderson, Farrah Abraham, Teen Pregnancy, Anderson Cooper, Teen Mom 2, Chelsea Houska, Tv Replay, TV News

It's a controversy that's hovered around both "Teen Mom," "Teen Mom 2" and "16 and Pregnant." Are these shows glamorizing teen pregnancy? Anderson Coo...

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Number of Teens Getting Pregnant, Having Abortions Plummets

Posted 02.09.2012 | Home
Read More: Teen Pregnancy, Teen Pregnancy Rate, Abortion, Teen Pregnancy Rates, Teen Abortion, Guttmacher Institute, Video, Home News

A Guttmacher Institute study reveals that in 2008, teen births and abortions decreased to their lowest levels since 1972 -- the year before the Suprem...

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Ex-Teacher Faces Felony For Giving Student Emergency Contraceptive

Posted 04.10.2012 | Home
Read More: Shippensburg University Pill, Emergency Contraception, Lyndon B. Johnson High School, Video, Emergency Contraceptives, Teen Pregnancy, Morning After Pill, Shippensburg University, Plan B, Teachers, Lbj High School, Tracy Lee Steinberg, Texas High Schools, Austin High School, Planned Parenthood, Texas Schools, Home News

A former Texas High School teacher faces felony charges for delivery of a dangerous drug after admitting to police that she gave a student an emergenc...

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Cindy Y. Rodriguez

Dante And Shakespeare Inspire Teen Moms To Continue Their Education

HuffingtonPost.com | Cindy Y. Rodriguez | Posted 02.08.2012 | Latino Voices
Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Holyoke, Video, The Care Center, Teen Pregnancy, Latinas, Hispanics, Massachusetts, Teen Birth Rate, Latina, Latino Prosperity, Latino Voices News

Teen mothers are getting a taste of the prep school experience, replete with studying the classics from Dante to Shakespeare, through an innovative pr...

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Joseph Erbentraut

Teen Mothers Find Support, Education And Empowerment

HuffingtonPost.com | Joseph Erbentraut | Posted 01.31.2012 | Chicago
Read More: Teen Health, Teen Pregnancy, Teen Pregnancy Mentors, Teen Pregnancy Programs, Video, Illinois Sex Education, Teen Pregnancy Support, Teen Mothers, Chicago Teen Pregnancy, Sex Education, Chicago News

The Simpson Academy for Young Women, a Chicago public school, last week cut the ribbon on its newest addition -- and it wasn't a new library wing, com...

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Paula Deen Ate My Teenage Daughter

Mark Morford | Posted 03.26.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Catholic Church, Type 2 Diabetes, Burger King, Teen Pregnancy, Comfort Food, Paula Deen, Lions, Wisconsin Recall Elections, Cancer, Diabetes, Obesity, Comedy News
Mark Morford

Paula Deen appears to openly despise you and doesn't seem to care if you get fat and sick and perhaps die from eating her bacon-wrapped deep-fried mac-and-cheese butter-dipped donut logs on a stick!

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16 & Pregnant & Having an Abortion

Cristina Page | Posted 03.21.2012 | Home
Read More: Teen Pregnancy, Abortion, 16 & Pregnant, Teen Mom, Mtv, Pro-Choice, Teen Abortions, Adoptio, Birth Parents, Open Adoption, Abortion Clinics, Teen Moms, Home News
Cristina Page

There's another voice you must add to 16 & Pregnant: That of the 16 year-old girl who is pregnant and chooses to have an abortion.

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Trash Television and the American Youth: Irresponsibility Overload

Daphne Daly | Posted 03.17.2012 | TV
Read More: Adult Industry, Reality TV, Television, Jersey Shore, Teen Mom, College, Economy, Sex, Teen Pregnancy, Parenting, Producer, Tv, Social Issues, Promiscuity, Teenagers, TV News
Daphne Daly

For far too long, we have shirked our responsibilities as adults and allowed the television to take the reins.

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Teen Sues Family Over Forced Abortion

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.10.2012 | Politics
Read More: Teen Pregnancy Rate, Abortion, Teen Abortion, Abortion Rights, Teen Pregnancy, Abortion Legal Battle, Pro-Life Groups, Forced Abortion, Video, Politics News

A 14-year-old teen from Corpus Christi, Texas, is suing her family in order to stop them from forcing her to have an abortion, according to ABC News. ...

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New Analysis Reveals Spike In Same-Sex Contact Between Teen Girls

Posted 12.23.2011 | Gay Voices
Read More: Same Sex Contact, Gay Adolescents, U.S. National Survey of Family Growth, Teen Girls Lesbians, Teen Pregnancy, Gays and Lesbians, Teen Girls, Teenage Girls, Gay Voices News

A new analysis of the U.S. National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) has revealed some surprising shifts in the sexual activity of teenage girls over th...

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The Biggest Virginity Myth Is Still Intact

Cristen Conger | Posted 02.19.2012 | Women
Read More: Virgin, Women, Gynecology, Women's Health, Sex, Teen Pregnancy, Virginity, Teen Girls, Love, Sexual Intercourse, Sexuality, Sex Education, Women News
Cristen Conger

The hymen might be the most overrated flap of flesh in the human body, the anatomical equivalent of a sexually charged appendix.

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HHS Protects Kids In Vetoing Plan B Decision

Sister Mary Ann Walsh | Posted 02.15.2012 | Religion
Read More: Catholic Church, Contraceptives, Morning-After Pill, President Barack Obama, Teen Pregnancy, Kathleen Sebelius, Plan B-Stage One, Abortion, Kathleen Sebelius Plan B, Fda Plan B, Plan B, Planned Parenthood, Religion News
Sister Mary Ann Walsh

Health and Human Services acted to protect kids Dec. 7 when HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected a recommendation of the Food and Drug Administration to let stores sell powerful hormonal drugs to children over the counter.

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Eight Reasons Obama Should Reverse His Mistake on Plan B

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 02.14.2012 | Politics
Read More: Lester Crawford, Kathleen Sebelius, George W. Bush, Teen Pregnancy, Susan Wood, Birth Control, Plan B, Fda, Barack Obama, Margaret Hamburg, Video, Politics News
Shawn Lawrence Otto

Any time an administration finds science politically inconvenient, this precedent by a supposedly pro-science president will make it that much easier for future administrations to assert more absolute authority. That is dangerous for the future of science and the nation.

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Behind the Sharp Decline in Teen Births

Sharon L. Camp | Posted 02.13.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Teen Pregnancy, Contraception, Birth Control, Cdc, Teen Birth Rate, Teens, Guttmacher Institute, Teen Birth Control, Teen Birth, Health News, Healthy Living News
Sharon L. Camp

The recently-reported decline in teen pregnancy can be linked almost exclusively to improvements in teens' contraceptive use, according to new data from a major government study, the CDC's National Survey of Family Growth.

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Did Abstinence-Only Create a Bully Generation?

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 02.11.2012 | Parents
Read More: Sexism, Gender Stereotypes, Equality, Gender and Bullying, Bully Police, Gender, Legal Matters, Bullying, Teen Abortion Rates, Lgtb, Bullies, Teen Stds, Bullying in Schools, Cyberbullying, Sex Ed in the US, Slut-Shaming, Sexual Harassment, Homophobia, Comprehensive Sexuality Education, Sex Ed, Abstinence-Only, Teen Pregnancy, Elizabeth Meyer, Ethics, Abstinence, Lgtbq, Parents News
Soraya Chemaly

Abstinence-only education creates a petri dish for bullying in schools. There is always a lot of back and forth about the efficacy of these programs,...

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: Sex Education: Does Abstinence-Only Education Really Work?

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 11.28.2011 | Home
Read More: Teen Mom, Sex Ed, Children, Abstinence, Science, Sex Education, Education, Video, Std, Talk Nerdy to Me, Sex, Teens, Teen Pregnancy, Birth Control, Cara Santa Maria, Sti, Condoms, Home News

2011-11-18-djfkdjfkjioejfkdkjiejie.jpgScience illuminates sexuality. And that is why it is so important that we learn about our bodies at an early age.

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: The Science of Sex Education

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 01.15.2012 | Home
Read More: Lgbt, Video, Parents-Teens, Sex Ed, Talk Nerdy to Me, Safe Sex, Teen Pregnancy, Science, Abstinence-Only Education, Abstinence Education, Stis, Title V, Sex Education, Rick Perry, Home News

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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Surprising Things We Can Learn From The Dutch About Sex Education

healthland.time.com | Maia Szalavitz | Posted 11.18.2011 | Home
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Parents-Teens, Amy Schalet, The Sex Talk, Holland, Teen Pregnancy, Safe Sex, Teen-Abortion, Teen Sex, Sex Education, Home News

Teen birth rates are eight times higher in the U.S. than in Holland. Abortion rates are twice as high. The American AIDS rate is three times greater t...

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The Sex Education of Justin Bieber

Cristina Page | Posted 01.04.2012 | Home
Read More: Teen Pregnancy, Contraception, Sex Education, Teen Parenthood, Justin Bieber, Justin Beiber, Justin Bieber Pregnancy Story, Bieber, Justin Bieber Girl Pregnant, Justin Bieber Sex, Home News
Cristina Page

Justin Bieber serves as an allegory for the way we treat American teens: leading them to temptation, unprotected and unprepared, and expecting more of them than we do of ourselves.

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The New ABCD's of Talking About Sex With Teenagers

Amy Schalet | Posted 01.02.2012 | Parents
Read More: Teen Pregnancy, Sex Ed, Sex, Sex Talk, Sex Education, Health Education, Teenagers, Parents News
Amy Schalet

How can American parents and other adults talk with teenagers about sexuality and romantic relationships in more positive terms, while bolstering young people's capacities to protect themselves against potential negative experiences and consequences?

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High School Student Who Faked Pregnancy Gets Lifetime Movie

AP | Posted 12.14.2011 | Home
Read More: Gaby Rodriguez Pregnancy, Toppenish High School, Alexa Vega, Video, Gaby Rodriguez, The Pregnancy Project, Lifetime, Washington Schools, Teen Pregnancy, Fake Pregnancy, Lifetime Movie, High School Assembly, Gaby Rodriguez Fake Pregnancy, Toppenish Washington, Home News

SEATTLE -- Faking her pregnancy was the high school project that keeps paying off for one Washington state teenager. Gaby Rodriguez of Toppenish was ...

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