National Campaign for Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy

On the Pill's 50th Birthday, We're Still Fighting for Sex Ed

April 27, 2010 - 9:00am (Print)

Why, in a world of countless birth control pills, the ring, the patch, implants, and condoms for women and men, do people still get pregnant unintentionally? Because there are a lot of people rooting against them.

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"Abstinence Plus": Soothing to Parents, or Still Lying to Teens?

by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

July 17, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

With a narrow focus on teen pregnancy prevention, will new sex ed programs provide contraceptive info while preserving abstinence-only tactics of slut-shaming and virginity-fetishizing?

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