sex ed
The Connection Between Abstinence-Only Education and Teen Pregnancy?
"Emma" talks about her personal experiences regarding the relationship between abstinence-only education and teen pregnancy in an attempt to raise education/awarenessof this very significant relationship.
Did Abstinence-Only Ideology Create a Bully Generation?
January 5, 2012 - 9:28am (Print)
Abstinence-only programs, with their emphasis on purity, marriage, and heterosexuality, create hostile environments that perpetuate the growth of rule-enforcing bullies, one slut-shaming, homophobic class at a time.
Advocacy Groups Sound Warning on Efforts to Renew Funding for Discredited Abstinence Only Programs
by Andy Kopsa
December 14, 2011 - 10:38am (Print)
A 911 came out today from SIECUS to call and demand ab-only funding be removed from the 2012 Appropriations Bill. I have cut and pasted the call to action at the end of this email. Meanwhile, read up on why ab-only is so bad; I do the research so you don't have to!
Sexual Harassment: Not Really About Sex At All
by Marianne Møllmann, Amnesty International
November 10, 2011 - 2:09pm (Print)
Sexual harassment in middle and high schools today is motivated by either misogyny or homophobia. Neither has to do with sex. And neither would be helped by treating sexual harassment between children as a result of overactive hormones to be dismissed.
The War on Sex Ed Targets Planned Parenthood, Women and Homosexuals
by Andy Kopsa
November 1, 2011 - 6:36pm (Print)
In preparation for what may eventually be another Lila Rose grainy expose trumpeted by the Right, it’s helpful to brush up on where millions and millions of tax-dollars are going to pay for sex “education:” ineffective and stigmatizing abstinence-only-until marriage programs.
Debate Of NYC Schools' Sex Education Curriculum
On October 26, 2011, Andrea Miller, President of NARAL Pro-Choice New York, appeared on NY1's "Inside City Hall" to defend the importance of comprehensive, age-appropriate sex education, which will be taught on a standardized, universal basis across New York City public middle and high schools starting in January, 2012. Miller's opponent was Michael Benjamin of the Chiaroscuro Foundation's NYC Parent's Choice Coalition, a conservative group that opposes comprehensive sex education.
New York's Universal Comprehensive Sex Ed Mandate: The Radical Notion Our Kids Might Learn Facts
by Andrea Miller, NARAL Pro-Choice New York/NIRH
October 26, 2011 - 8:16am (Print)
For decades, students’ likelihood of receiving sex ed in NYC public schools has come down to the luck of the draw. New York City’s universal standard for sex education, announced in August, seeks to put an end to the loose patchwork of programs across the city. But the usual suspects are using fear-mongering and falsehoods to push their agenda of ignorance.
Elected Officials Speak Out Against NYC's Sex Ed Mandate
by Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check
October 25, 2011 - 4:24pm (Print)
Calling the program "graphic and explicit," three local politicians spoke out yesterday against the city's sex ed mandate at a protest rally (or maybe it was just a press conference) in Brooklyn.
Spewing Misinformation and Ideology, A New York Times Op-Ed Spreads Unfounded Fears About Sex Ed
October 19, 2011 - 7:52pm (Print)
An op-ed in today’s New York Times preys on parents fears about sex ed but a closer look shows that it is not as much about sexuality education as it is an overt example of how far the socially conservative agenda is pervading all aspects of our culture.
Sex Ed in Texas? Perry's Policies Result in High Rates of Teen Pregnancy and Disease
by Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check
October 19, 2011 - 7:28pm (Print)
New research out of the University of Texas, Houston, confirms that young people in Texas are more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors than their peers nationwide. And, the researchers suggest that the state's conservative policies policies around sexuality education and reproductive heath are to blame.
