By Rachel Hart, Reproductive Freedom Project at 11:49am
Ohio: Cleveland school officials have announced a plan to expand sex education curriculum to include age-appropriate lessons beginning as early as kindergarten in an effort to reach all 58,000 students in the city. (Currently many Cleveland
By Rachel Hart, Reproductive Freedom Project at 11:41am
Virginia: The Loudoun Times-Mirror reports on the ACLU of Virginia's efforts to ensure that an abstinence-only-until-marriage assembly at Loudoun County High School did not contain any religious content. The program was sponsored by Life Line Pregnancy Care Center in Leesburg, and a spokespe
By Rachel Hart, Reproductive Freedom Project at 2:11pm
Alabama: The Birmingham News reports that teen pregnancy is on the decline in the state. The only mention in the article of the role that prevention plays in reducing teen pregnancy comes from Don Bogie, a sociologist with the Auburn University Center for Demographic Research in Montgomery. Michael Sibley, a spokesperson for the
By Rachel Hart, Reproductive Freedom Project at 3:36pm
Colorado: The Daily Times-Call has an article about a new health clinic for teens in Longmont. Intake over the summer has shown that the clinic is clearly filling a need in the community, especially since teens in Longmont only receive abstinence-only-until-marriage instruction. The article notes that the crisis pregnancy center, Life Choices, p
By Rachel Hart, Reproductive Freedom Project at 3:10pm
Arizona: Last week, the Kyrene Elementary School District Governing Board unanimously approved updating the district's health curriculum for sixth through eighth grades. The curriculum will now include statements that "sex" refers to vaginal, oral and anal sexual acts, in addition to definitions of STDs. A local parent is quoted saying he doesn't want his sixth-grade so
By Rachel Hart, Reproductive Freedom Project at 4:58pm
Yesterday the FDA finally approved use of the emergency contraceptive, Plan B, without a prescription. Unfortunately, as part of its approval, the FDA included an arbitrary and unscientific age restriction that not only infringes on privacy rights but will also deter women of all ages from purchasing the drug. For more information check out the ACLU's Read More»
By Rachel Hart, Reproductive Freedom Project at 6:28pm
Alabama: Last week in Baldwin County school officials put a stop to condom distribution at a talk on HIV awareness.
Arizona: The debate at Kyrene Elementary School District continues. The question is whether schools s
By Rachel Hart, Reproductive Freedom Project at 11:42am
Alaska: The Anchorage Daily News has an announcement for a "Now I Know" abstinence-only-until-marriage rally aimed at teen girls. The event is put on by a group called My Sister's Keeper Alaska. Aside from curiosity about what the event will be like, I also wonder why so many abstinence ev
By Rachel Hart, Reproductive Freedom Project at 3:24pm
An article in USA Today examines a report released Monday by Child Trends that reveals that most sexually active teens don't regularly use condoms (only 47 percent of boys and 28 percent of girls report always using a condom when they have sex). Co-authors of the report note that "condom use
