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The Philippines Congress will decide on the fate of a reproductive health bill, an Iranian blogger was found dead after being arrested for his activism, and the...
Sex Education in Mississippi: Will a New Law Lower Teen Pregnancy Rates?
TUNICA, Miss. — During the four years Ashley McKay attended Rosa Fort High School in Tunica, Miss., her sex education consisted mainly of an instructor listing...
The Good News In Teen Births Isn’t Good Enough
The Centers for Disease Control just reported a 44% decline in the teenage birth rate since 1990, the lowest level in almost 70 years. The decline represents an...
Teen Sex Ed: Instead of Promoting Promiscuity, It Delays First Sex
The relationship between abstinence, contraception, sex and teens is nothing if not complicated. On Tuesday, it got even more tangled as Utah lawmakers gave a...
Pop Quiz: D.C. Public Schools Put Sex Education to the Test
Controversy over standardized testing has popped up again in Washington. But this time it's the subject matter that has been called into question. Beginning in...
New York City Mandates Sex Ed Classes for Public School Kids
When New York City's public school students return to classes this year, there will be a new addition to their curriculum: sex education classes that will...
U.S. Conservatives Attack UNESCO's Sex-Ed Guidelines
Any attempt to decrease the number of unwanted pregnancies and slow the spread of sexually transmitted diseases like HIV around the world has to be a good thing,...
How to End The War Over Sex Ed
Jewels Morris-Davis is a no-nonsense kind of girl. When the high school sophomore turned 16 recently, she didn't celebrate with any My Super Sweet 16...
Behind the Boom in Adult Single Motherhood
Somewhere Dan Quayle is clenching his fists. Two decades after the then Vice President bemoaned single motherhood — calling out the sitcom Murphy Brown for...
Surgeon General Nominee Grilled
The confirmation hearings of Dr. James Holsinger to be U.S. Surgeon General — the top doctor on U.S. health policy — were already going to be tense, given his...
