Posts Tagged Abstinence-Only Education

By Jessica • 14 years ago

Miriam Grossman is teaching my child what?!, Part 1

Oh dear. Miriam Grossman – of Unprotected fame (the book that tells young women having sex will make them diseased drop outs) – has a yet another book out: You’re Teaching My Child What?: A Physician Exposes the Lies of Sex Ed and How They Harm Your Child
I found out about Grossman’s latest through this column at Townhall that – in the great tradition of unhinged moral panic – suggests that comprehensive sex education wants “to strip our little girls of their natural inclination toward modesty and replace it with an attitude of sexual dominance.” Who, me? *bats eyelashes*
Columnist Rebecca Hagelin says that our daughters are “under siege” by those who would teach them ...
Oh dear. Miriam Grossman – of Unprotected fame (the book that tells young women having sex will make them diseased drop outs) – has a yet another book out: You’re Teaching My Child What?: ...
By Miriam • 14 years ago

My no, no square: ACLU takes on Mississippi Abstinence Summit

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is going up against the Mississippi Department of Health and Human Services for an Abstinence Summit that was held using government funding. Amplified has a video about the summit, from Huffington Post:

God and Abstinence from Stuart Productions on Vimeo.

The ACLU is arguing that the use of tax dollar funds is a misappropriation, and violates separation between church and state.
My favorite quote from the event?

“Stop, don’t touch me there — this is my no, no square,” said one cheer by the Grenada High School cheerleaders. It wasn’t about school spirit.

h/t to Amanda Marcotte

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is going up against the Mississippi Department of Health and Human Services for an Abstinence Summit that was held using government funding. Amplified has a video about the summit, from ...
By Jos Truitt • 14 years ago

Health Care Reform could include Healthy Teen Initiative

As Miriam mentioned in the health care reform roundup, Representative Lois Capps (D-CA) introduced an amendment to the House health care reform bill that would create a Healthy Teen Initiative. Jodi Jacobson at RH Reality Check shares the story of this amendment, the result of work by a coalition of sexual health advocates to expand the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative proposed in the president’s budget. Advocates were concerned by the limited scope of the president’s initiative, which, as I discussed previously, would exclude information about and strategies for preventing the spread of sexuality transmitted diseases.
The Healthy Teen Initiative would authorize $50 million to fund program models that have been proven –
to delay initiation of sex; ...

As Miriam mentioned in the health care reform roundup, Representative Lois Capps (D-CA) introduced an amendment to the House health care reform bill that would create a Healthy Teen Initiative. Jodi Jacobson at RH Reality Check ...
By Jessica • 14 years ago

Quick (listening) hit: Debating abstinence

I was on the Alan Colmes radio show last week, debating Valerie Huber of the National Abstinence Education Association. You may be able to tell that I’m kind of jet lagged and cranky in the segment – at one point I get totally pissed off. (I know, shocking.)

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I was on the Alan Colmes radio show last week, debating Valerie Huber of the National Abstinence Education Association. You may be able to tell that I’m kind of jet lagged and cranky in ...
By Jessica • 14 years ago

Thanks, abstinence-only education!


Or ‘enter’, whatever.
A new report from the CDC says that “trends in the sexual and reproductive health of U.S. teens and young adults have flattened, or in some instances may be worsening.” Are we really surprised?
Thanks to a decade of misinformation masquerading as sex education, teens are having the same amount of sex, using contraception less, and getting pregnant more.
We’re reaping what we’ve sowed. A 2002 study found that one-third of U.S. teenagers hadn’t received any formal instruction about contraception. For those who did learn about contraception – it was all scare tactics. In Me, My World, My Future – a textbook used in public schools across the country – ...


Or ‘enter’, whatever.
A new report from the CDC says that “trends in the sexual and reproductive health of U.S. teens and young adults have flattened, or in some instances may be worsening.” Are ...
By Jessica • 14 years ago

Are you a condom worshipper? (Or, When the purity pushers lose their damn minds)


Anything you say, oh divine one!
Abstinence-only education advocates are not too pleased that their federal funding is pretty much kaput (though I’m still keeping my eye on that “teen pregnancy prevention” money). In fact, they are freaking out.
Leslee Unruh, president of the National Abstinence Clearinghouse and all-around fun person to watch lose their shit, had this to say about losing federal funding:
“We’ve got news for the condom worshipers, abstinence education is not going away any time soon. Taxpayers will not tolerate their money being used for ideological latex-only programs and the molestation of their children’s minds and future.”
You know, this is why folks in the virginity movement need to

Anything you say, oh divine one!
Abstinence-only education advocates are not too pleased that their federal funding is pretty much kaput (though I’m still keeping my eye on that “teen pregnancy prevention” money). In ...
By Vanessa • 14 years ago

Report released on CPCs as 2010 spending budget is decided

RH Reality Check released another compelling video with the Feminist Majority Foundation on their investigation into the deception of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) and the serious harm it poses to young women.

For the next week, the House Appropriations Labor Health and Human Services (HHS) Committee will be conducting hearings on the FY 2010 spending bill. Take action and tell House Appropriations Committee Chair Rep. David Obey that continuing to fund abstinence-only programs and crisis pregnancy centers would be a severe injustice against women’s health and rights.

RH Reality Check released another compelling video with the Feminist Majority Foundation on their investigation into the deception of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) and the serious harm it poses to young women.

For the next week, ...
By Samhita • 14 years ago

Blah blah blah Sarah Palin blah blah blah.


I don’t care about Sarah Palin, but given what I do I am forced to read and think about her much more often than I would like to. Similar to Amanda, I don’t think of Palin is a martyr or someone who was so heinously treated by the media that we should pity her in any way. I have yet to see any evidence of her being humbled about being wrong and an asshole, and while attacks against her have also been sexist, that is not the bulk of criticism around her. Palin hates women (at least that is what is apparent through the little legislation she has worked on) and has used her teenage daughter ...


I don’t care about Sarah Palin, but given what I do I am forced to read and think about her much more often than I would like to. Similar to Amanda, I don’t think ...

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