Posted in Sexual Education on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Doesn’t the above statement make your jaw drop a little and a sickening pit in your stomach to grow? It does mine. But this is the latest number put forth as a panel in the House of Representatives debated continuing to fund such abstinence-only sex ed. There seems to be a growing outcry among experts [...]
Posted in Activism, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Education, United States, What You Can Do on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Recently, POPLINE, which is run by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is both the “world’s largest reproductive health database,”and funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), began to block searches using the word “abortion.” Such overt interference of politics and anti-intellectualism into research projects, databases, information dissemination is especially [...]
Posted in Activism, Reproductive Rights, Sexual Education on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
In honor of Back Up Your Birth Control Day, I wanted to do a quick post on Emergency Contraception: the myths, the facts.
The Myth: “Abortion Pill”: Anti-Choice groups would have you believe that Emergency Contraception IS an abortion. It is not:
1. The woman is not pregnant: Medical authorities agree that it takes a few days [...]
Posted in New York, Sexual Education, tagged NY Public Schools, Religion, Seriously??, Sex Ed, STDs, What You Can Do on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
I grew up with a pretty comprehensive sex ed program in a CT public school system. By no means abstinence only, we performed the condom-on-the-banana trick, attended AIDS workshops and panels, talked about saying no, but also heavily emphasized that one just never did know, so a spare condom in the wallet was essential. In [...]
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