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Abstinence-Only Speaker Makes Kids Cry—Then Fight Back

“Many students felt uncomfortable with her outright condemnation of any and everyone who has ever had premarital sexual contact.”

Abstinence-only-until-marriage speaker Pam Stenzel presented her message of shame to the wrong students last week. Many are complaining that her speech was “slut-shaming” and at least one is filing a complaint with the ACLU.

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Ohio Lawmakers Work to Prohibit Teaching About ‘Gateway Sexual Activity’

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Touching thighs is, according to Ohio lawmakers, a gateway to other sexual activity and they would like to see anyone who teaches about it in school subject to a $5,000 fine.

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A View of a Classroom: The Role of Educators in STD Prevention

Reducing STD rates takes education. Our youth have questions.  We need to answer them.

Reducing STD rates takes education. Our youth have questions. We need to answer them.

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How to Help Youth Develop Healthy Attitudes Toward Sex

Early conversations help shape healthy attitudes and knowledge about STDs and sexual health.

When discussing STDs, it’s important to take a proactive approach, because early conversations help shape healthy attitudes and knowledge about STDs and sexual health. That’s especially true for youth.

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State Policy Trends 2013: Abortion Bans Move to the Forefront

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Unlike in recent years, when the thrust of legislative activity was on regulating abortion, this year legislators seem to be focusing on banning abortion outright.

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Science In, Science Out: Texas Lawmakers Hear Two Very Different Abortion Bills

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One bill would remove language connecting breast cancer to abortion in the state-issued pre-abortion booklet. The other would ban abortions performed after 20 weeks post-fertilization.

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Arkansas Senate Votes Again, Approves State Funding Ban for Planned Parenthood

Now, the state senate has voted again on the bill, and this time the measure passed 19-to-11.

If at first you don’t defund, vote again.

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My Right to Choose My Daughter Made Me the Confident Woman I Am Today

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In a strange turn of events and circumstance—being pregnant at 15—I found I suddenly had my life in my own hands. Finally people wanted to know what I wanted. Four days before my sixteenth birthday I became a teen mom, by my own choice.

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Protect Yourself: National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day

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April 10 is National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day, the first awareness day to recognize the impact of the AIDS epidemic specifically on teens and young adults.

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On National Youth HIV and AIDS Day, the Boston College ‘Troublemakers’ Speak

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Our crime has made national news: We’re giving out condoms. At a Catholic University.

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