Political Foolishness and Teen Pregnancy
Jul 2, 2009 The decline in contraceptive use may cheer those who have promoted faith-inspired school curricula, but now we have sad and clear evidence that political foolishness among adults is leading to foolish and harmful behavior among kids.
Wait Till Wal-Mart Hears About This
May 15, 2009 Trying to raise some consciousness about sex education in China, an entrepreneur plans to open the country's first sex theme park in October It's raising some local eyebrows too as development continues in the southwest city of Chongqing.Rapping Penis Takes Canada by Storm
Apr 8, 2009 This Canadian Planned Parenthood commercial makes the argument for (or against?) sex education.
Withdrawal 101
Mar 3, 2009
Bristol Palin: Abstinence-Only Plan Doesn’t Work
Feb 17, 2009 Last fall, Bristol Palin became a controversial figure in her mother Sarah Palin's vice presidential bid when it was revealed, not long after the elder Palin took to the campaign trail, that the teenaged Bristol was pregnant by her high school boyfriend. Now Bristol has re-emerged to make a few comments that run against her mom's approach to teen sex ed.Let’s Pledge to Stop Being Stupid About Teen Sex
Jan 2, 2009 "Virginity pledges" are one of the ways that government officials measure whether abstinence-only education is "working." They count the pledges as proof that teens will abstain. It turns out that this is like counting New Year's resolutions as proof that you lost 10 pounds.Who Invited God to the DNC?
Sep 1, 2008 So what was with all of the invocations of the deity at last week's Democratic National Convention? Stephen Colbert talks about the Dems' public displays of piety with Lori Lippman Brown, director of the Secular Coalition for America, producing another kind of sacred text to take the Bible's place as he swears Brown in for her "Colbert Report" testimonial.
Romney, Obama Spar Over Sex Ed
Jul 21, 2007 What's the right way to talk to children about sex? Presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have different ideas about how to answer this classic question -- and for his part, Obama thinks stories about storks don't fly after a certain age. Meanwhile, Romney proudly touts his record in promoting abstinence education.Birth Control Is Back
Jul 18, 2007 The U.S. continues to have the highest teen pregnancy rate in the industrialized world, despite this week's reports of doubled sales of the controversial over-the-counter birth control method Plan B, otherwise known as "the morning-after pill." So why does Washington continue to push abstinence-only sex education against all better scientific judgments?
