According to the Chicago Sun-Times, abortion is at a ten year high in Illinois. There are a couple factors being credited for the 5% increase in abortion rates since 2007. The first of those reasons being the plummeting economy. Dave Mckinney reports,
The state’s main provider of abortion services has heard from its clients that [...]
Holy masturbation, Batman! I wish I had taken sex ed in Spain, because Spanish teens are being taught how to masturbate as part of a new sex-positive sex ed campaign. According to Time Magazine:
In late October, the regional government of Extremadura in southwestern Spain launched a new sexual-education campaign designed to facilitate the [...]
As a teen growing up in today’s world, I have been in the middle of one of the hottest choice-related topics right now- the abstinence-only debate. Though Spokane is in Washington state, which mandates comprehensive sexual education, the programs where I live are abstinence only. There is an amazingly negative opinion of sex at the [...]
Since October 21st is “Love Your Body Day,” I thought it would be good to focus this post on loving your body, loving sex and loving the pleasure that your body can give you (or you can give your body).
Every year, on “Love Your Body” day, I try to put all of my own body [...]
Here’s some more pro-choice trivia for your fabulously feminist Friday!
There are 3 million unintended pregnancies each year, which constitutes 50% of all pregnancies. Approximately half of unintended pregnancies result in abortions each year.
68,000 women die worldwide each year do to unsafe abortions.
The United States has the highest rate of STI’s (sexually transmitted infections) in the [...]
According to a new fact sheet fro the Guttmacher Institute, American teens are getting it on, whether adults want to believe it or not. The fact sheet also shows that accurate information about contraceptive use and STI’s can help teens delay the onset of sexual activity and decrease the rates of teen pregnancy . . [...]
We all know the old feminist adage, “If men were the ones to get pregnant, choice wouldn’t be such an issue.” At least that’s the way I’ve seen it since I was 12 and realized I was a true feminist (after listening to a Backstreet Boys song and getting angry because it contained a sexist [...]
Hello everyone! Sorry there hasn’t been a sex ed update in awhile. But after some grueling weeks of out-of-town work and then a lovely vacation to Hawaii for ten days, I’m back and I bring with me a slew of disgraceful news regarding sex education worldwide.
In India, teenage pregnancy is rampant. We may not hear [...]
Good satire should never go unnoticed and The Onion has a great piece up, ostensibly about “Abstinence-Only Lunch Programs.” In reality it’s a clever indictment of Abstinence-Only Sex Education. Some choice bits…
On Tuesday I posted Jimmy Carter’s brave op-ed distancing himself from the Southern Baptist Convention on the Moral Courage Project blog. The post prompted some interesting dialog on the site. I was particularly struck by the words of Erin:
Although it seems that disassociating with an organization that discriminates against women is the right thing to [...]
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