With so much misinformation on sexual and reproductive health promoted by social conservative ideologues, RH Reality Check and EMMY award-winning Stuart Television Productions have partnered to bring online news readers, journalists, reproductive health advocates and activists, “Our Reality” videos -- a series of powerful news features focusing on the real-life impact of sexual and reproductive health policies.
VIDEO: Max tells about his experience with failed abstinence-only programs.RH
Reality Check’s newest video series highlights real people’s stories -
on everything from the failure of abstinence-only programs to
contraception access and HIV/AIDS. Our first video introduces viewers
to Max Siegel, a young man who contracted HIV from his first sexual
experience, his only sexual health education having come from an
abstinence-only program in high school. Currently four videos are available in the “Our Reality”
series and additional video will be added in the next two weeks. The
videos can be found online at RHRealityCheck.org and its affiliated
pages on Vimeo, You Tube, Facebook and are available for use by other
publications under Creative Commons guidelines.
Charles Stuart, director of RH Reality Check’s “Our Reality” videos, is president of Stuart Television Productions, the winner of five national EMMYS, two Duponts, and other national awards. His work includes more than a dozen documentaries including for PBS’ Frontline, ABC, HBO, The Discovery Channel, CNN, MSNBC, Lifetime and more. Prior to forming his company, Stuart worked as a Senior Producer of an Investigative Unit at ABC News in New York.
RH Reality Check produces another online video series having released six approximately three-minute videos to date. The “Reality Check” series, hosted by RH Reality Check podcast host and columnist Amanda Marcotte, features a point-counterpoint discussion of some of the most controversial issues in sexual and reproductive health. The newest “Reality Check” video shatters the stereotypes propagated by anti-choice activists about women who have abortions and abortion providers. The entire series of five videos can be found here. New videos in this series are released every other week.
