Posted on January 7th, 2011 by Health News
Recent federal statistics showing that the nation’s teen birth rate continues to exceed rates in most other industrialized countries “are yet another reminder that American young people need better comprehensive sex education to prevent unwanted pregnancies” and transmission of sexually transmitted infections, a Philadelphia Inquirer editorial states…
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Posted on December 16th, 2010 by Health News
For the last couple years, Texas schools have been employing two programs that take a different approach to prevent teen pregnancy by using teen parents and other instructional methods to teach students about the financial and emotional tolls of being a teen parent, rather than focusing on sex education or abstinence, USA Today reports…
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Posted on December 15th, 2010 by Health News
“If teens aren’t going to get sex education from their parents, and if they aren’t going to get it from their schools, then they’re going to get it somewhere,” including the media or their peers, which can lead to misinformation, according to Boston Globe columnist Joanna Weiss…
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Posted on December 7th, 2010 by Health News
The majority of U.S. women do not trust Sarah Palin on women’s health issues, including abortion, contraception and sex education, according to a poll conducted for Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Politico reports…
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Posted on November 23rd, 2010 by Health News
Republicans hope to capitalize on their majorities in 26 state legislatures to advance conservative policies on contraception, sex education, abortion rights and other social issues, the Washington Post reports. Prior to the midterm elections, Democrats controlled 27 state legislatures…
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Posted on October 13th, 2010 by Health News
Although a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report included “reassuring news that an overwhelming number of U.S. teens have had formal sex education,” there was “some hand-wringing over the purported lack of contraception education,” Washington Times columnist Cheryl Wetzstein writes…
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Posted on October 6th, 2010 by Health News
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries…
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Posted on September 14th, 2010 by Health News
Colorado policymakers need to give more attention to comprehensive sex education programs, according to a report released last week that details the “failures” of the state’s abstinence-only sex education programs, the Denver Daily News reports…
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Posted on August 4th, 2010 by Health News
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “A New Fight Over Abortion Access,” Joyce Tang, Daily Beast’s “Blogs & Stories”: Antiabortion-rights crisis pregnancy centers “have long operated under the guise of reproductive health care” and “been largely unregulated, even though they are eligible for federal abstinence-only funding,” Tang writes…
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Posted on July 5th, 2010 by Health News
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries…
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