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The Palin Pregnancy Circus And Better Sex Ed For Kids

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

April 19, 2009 - 10:20pm

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The Palin teenage pregnancy circus continues. Also, women get hurt worse by health care premiums, and Robie Harris talks about age-appropriate sex education for children.

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VIDEO: Levi Johnston Finally Uses "Protection"

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

October 7, 2009 - 9:48pm

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Many normal, non-news-junky Americans might have missed that this is Levi Johnston, the young man lucky enough to impregnate the governor's daughter-- just before the governor became the vice-presidential nominee for the Republican part.


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Common Ground: Does Such A Thing Exist?

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

May 24, 2009 - 10:01pm

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Frances Kissling on the common ground debate. Obama promotes it at Notre Dame, but what does it mean? Also, is Bristol Palin really fighting teenage pregnancy?

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Why We Need Bristol (and Levi)

By Cristina Page, Moderator, OnCommonGround

May 8, 2009 - 9:39am

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In her own roundabout way, Bristol Palin is voicing the core message of comprehensive sex ed: there’s no better protection against pregnancy and disease than abstinence, but teens those that are having sex need to use to protection.

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Abstinence for All?

By Elisabeth Garber-Paul, RH Reality Check

May 7, 2009 - 4:45pm

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Of course Bristol Palin is pro-abstinence. She got pregnant, and now her son if four months old. And she realizes that if she hadn't had sex, she wouldn't have to deal with this.

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Teen Pregnancy: Mixed Messages and the Responsibility Question

By Jodi Jacobson, Senior Political Editor

May 7, 2009 - 11:05am

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We keep telling teens to be responsible.  But to whom are the politicians, corporate do-gooders and celeb-vocates concerned about teen pregnancy responsible and for what?

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Bristol Palin's Dangerous Talking Points

By Joseph DiNorcia Jr, SIECUS

May 7, 2009 - 7:00am

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The message "teen ambassador" Bristol Palin seems to have been asked to deliver is disingenuous at best and dangerous at worst.

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Roundup: Bristol Palin on Today Show, Good Morning America

By Emily Douglas

May 6, 2009 - 9:49am

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Bristol Palin: "ambassador for abstinence" or for safer sex?; Obama, Clinton sound different themes on abortion and reproductive health; "Choose Life" license plates pass Texas House; what conscience clauses really do.

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VIDEO: "If You're Having Sex, Have Safe Sex," Says Bristol Palin on the Today Show

By Emily Douglas

May 6, 2009 - 9:11am

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The nation's most prominent voice on being a teen parent is coming ever closer to endorsing comprehensive, medically-accurate sexuality education.

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Levi Johnston: Victim in the Spotlight?

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

April 7, 2009 - 1:01pm

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As amusing as the Sarah Palin family circus may seem to gleeful liberals, there is something sad about it too. How many lives have been ruined by the kind of high-minded, impractical approach to sex that Sarah Palin's party pushed?

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