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U.S. Teen Birth Rate Continues To Plummet, But Remains Stubbornly Higher In The South
Most U.S. states saw a dramatic drop in their teen birth rates between 2007 and 2011, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control. The national rate of...
Published on May 23, 2013Elizabeth Smart: Abstinence Education Teaches Rape Victims They're Worthless, Dirty, And Filthy
... abstinence-only education and emphasize sexual purity... educate children about sexual crimes. She now believes... that comprehensive sex education can help prevent sexual crimes...
Published on May 06, 2013One High Schooler's Fight Against Abstinence Ed: 'If I Can Succeed In West Virginia, Anyone Can'
... by abstinence-only education. Her high school principal... to the press. At a Board of Education meeting this past... further. I fully advocate comprehensive sex education...
Published on April 23, 2013Ohio Drops 'Gateway Sexual Activity' Provision From State Budget
Ohio lawmakers failed to advance an amendment to the state budget that would have prohibited sex ed classes from including any instruction of “gateway sexual activity” under penalty of a...
Published on April 19, 2013Katelyn Campbell Receives Outpouring Of Support After Protesting High School Abstinence Assembly
... misinformation perpetrated by abstinence-only education... that you have presided over the education and awakening...
Published on April 19, 2013High Schooler Protests 'Slut-Shaming' Abstinence Assembly Despite Alleged Threats From Her Principal
... education has been suppressed. Our nurse wasn’t... to take up the issue at a local board of education...
Published on April 17, 2013Ohio Republicans Want To Ban Sex Ed Classes From Talking About 'Gateway Sexual Activity'
... in fines: The sex education addition says that any... education program must not promote “any gateway...
Published on April 16, 2013In Just Three Months, States Proposed An Astonishing 694 Provisions About Reproduction
... education, availability of medication, and abortion access... pregnancy through sex education: It finds that two states... restrictive, less informative sex education laws...
Published on April 11, 2013Family Research Council: Unmarried People Should Be Denied Birth Control And Punished For Having Sex
... of supporting contraception and sex education. The United...
Published on March 13, 2013Five States Taking Important Steps To Expand Access To Comprehensive Sex Ed
... or comprehensive sex education. Although the nation’s rate... education, rather than prioritizing comprehensive sexual... balanced sex education was recently introduced by 34...
Published on February 25, 2013Since Most South Carolina School Districts Aren't Following Sex Ed Laws, Fewer Teens Are Using Condoms
...-mandated guidelines for sexual health education, a new report finds... a Comprehensive Health Education Act (CHEA) in 1988...-based abstinence education still dominate many classrooms...
Published on January 16, 2013Young Evangelicals Slowly Shifting Away From Traditional Abstinence-Only, Anti-Contraception Views
...After the failure of abstinence-only education... to embrace more comprehensive education that includes forms...
Published on January 10, 2013Since 75 Percent Of West Virginia Teens Don't Use Birth Control, Lawmakers Consider Better Sex Ed
... in the sexual education that public school students currently... Virginia’s Department of Education, acknowledged.... “We do need to have better health education,”...
Published on January 08, 2013Alabama Legislator Wants To Get Rid Of Her State's Anti-Gay, Abstinence-Only Education Policy
... the state’s 1992 sex education law, which requires teacehrs... the law, then the Alabama Department of Education would... be in charge of establishing the state’s sex education...
Published on January 04, 2013Nation's First Standardized Sex Ed Test Reveals Gaps In Students' Knowledge
... information and assistance. The District’s education..., disease prevention, and sex education. But fifth... and eighth graders aren’t as educated about the human...
Published on December 13, 2012Governor Blames Teens For His Failed Abstinence Only Policies, Says They 'Do Not Care' About Birth Control
... an education campaign that his administration sponsored... about sex education. In fact, Bryant’s approach... of education about birth control, and rather a disregard...
Published on November 30, 2012Young Americans Continue To Put Themselves At Risk For HIV Virus, CDC Warns
... education programs for youth that emphasize HIV prevention... education and sexual education in their health classes...
Published on November 28, 2012Proposed Legislation Would Help Utah Parents Teach Sex Ed At Home
... abstinence-only education across the state and banned any... — and now that sexual education courses are mandatory... that would require Utah’s Office of Education...
Published on October 19, 2012Federal Funds Awarded To Abstinence-Only Education Programs
... grant designated for abstinence-only education... of abstinence education has been a concession to social... abstinence education fails to equip them with the resources...
Published on October 10, 2012Parents Don't Talk About Birth Control Often Enough With Their Teens
... president of Education for Planned Parenthood Federation...
Published on October 02, 2012
