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 [...]
OMG – I love dogs in costumes. I think more people should hand out little dog biscuits with the trick-or-treat candy, because little dogs like Halloween, too, you know. On the pro-choice front, here’s your Friday click list to kick off the weekend! When it Rains, it Pours . . . And Then There’s Health [...]
Orrin Hatch can eat me. On Tuesday the Senator from Utah offered two amendments to the health care reform bill. One of them was approved by the Senate Finance Committee, the other one failed by a razor-thin margin. The amendment that passed would reinstate funding for abstinence-only sex education, despite the overwhelming evidence that it [...]
In Gloria Feldt’s The War on Choice, the right wing’s attack on sex education is put under the microscope. They have started small at the local school board level and worked their way up to the federal level. The result has been that abstinence is the only sex education that American students receive in the [...]
But the single most important thing we can do to ensure that women and girls have access to safe, legal and affordable abortion and family planning services is to refuse to allow the other side to control the way that we debate abortion and choice. We can, indeed, we MUST refuse to talk about “partial-birth abortion” as there is NO SUCH THING. Late term abortions are a reality. The reasons for them are many and varied. But doctors do not cut healthy babies out of healthy women at 8 months gestation because the chick decides she needs to fit into her prom dress.
Comprehensive sex education is hard work but it’s completely necessary, especially now. At NARAL Pro-Choice Washington, I spend my whole day surrounded by sex education. It’s all I’ve worked on since I started the job seven months ago and one of the most interesting things I’ve learned is that many parents don’t even realize that [...]
Well ain’t that something? A new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health shows that teen pregnancy rates, which had been on a 14 year decline, have been steadily on the increase since 2006. The study attributes the rise to a decrease in contraceptive and condom usage. According to an article in today’s Washington Post: [...]
Well ain’t this a little piece of irony. According to CBS, a new study shows that students who attend private religious schools are more likely to receive abortions than students who attend private schools. . . . in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior showing that unwed pregnant teenagers and [...]
