. . .McCain’s record on issues surrounding teen pregnancy and contraceptives during his more than two decades in the Senate indicates that he and Palin have similar views. Until Monday, when the subject surfaced in a deeply personal manner, teen pregnancy and sex education were not issues in the national political campaign.
Palin herself said she [...]
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Posted in abstinence, events, harvard, sex on Oct 22nd, 2007
If you’re in Cambridge this Thursday:
LENA CHEN VS. TRUE LOVE REVOLUTION: Could opposites attract?
Date: Thursday, October 25th
Time: 5-7 PM
Location: Winthrop JCR, 36 Mils St., Cambridge, MA.
Lena Chen, author of blog ” Sex & The Ivy,” and Janie Fredell, of the True Love Revolution, [...]
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Posted in abstinence on Oct 17th, 2007
Two phone calls pulled a Planned Parenthood message from public radio in Pittsburgh.
A message about abstinence.
Gee, I guess they really listen to the listening public in Pittsburgh. Dial. Say hi to NPR for me.
Jefferson
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 16 — A public radio station here stopped running underwriting messages from Planned Parenthood and returned its $5,000 [...]
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Posted in abstinence, education, politics, sex on Apr 12th, 2007
By Tremayne Gibson and Rusty Mason
Sex: it is everywhere from magazine covers to television screens to billboards. Though sex has become a major engine of advertisement and entertainment in modern America, how to properly teach children about it remains a contentious debate. There is due cause for urgency in this debate, as the United States [...]
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Posted in abstinence, feminism on Apr 5th, 2007
Quips Jessica of Feministing.com: “My hymen gives me wings!”
The comments section is particularly hilarious.
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By KEVIN FREKING Associated Press Writer© 2007 The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The head of the federal office responsible for providing women with access to contraceptives and counseling to prevent pregnancy resigned unexpectedly Thursday after Medicaid officials took action against him in Massachusetts.
The Health and Human Services Department provided no details about the nature of the [...]
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Hilarious!
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Posted in abstinence, harvard, ivy league on Mar 23rd, 2007
Sometime between the founding of a student-run porn magazine and the day the campus health center advertised “Free Lube,” Harvard University seniors Sarah Kinsella and Justin Murray decided to fight back against what they see as too much mindless sex at the Ivy League school.
They founded a student group called True Love Revolution to promote [...]
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Posted in abstinence, media, news, politics, roundup on Mar 5th, 2007
Sex-saturated media arrives in China (Dallas Morning News)
Doyle turns down $600,000 in federal abstinence money (TwinCities.com)
Angry Ex Distributes Explicit DVDs Using Old-Fashioned Windows (Sex Drive Daily)
Weekly Feminist Reader (Feministing)
Attack of the Red-Carpet-Munchers! (Simon Doonan; NYO)
My Date with Ann (Steven Weber; HuffPo)
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Mike Weiss, Chronicle Staff Writer
There is no good scientific evidence that teaching abstinence to teenagers will by itself prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, say the authors of a recent study. Yet they found that comprehensive sex education is declining and that more youngsters are being taught nothing more than abstinence.
As with similar debates [...]
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