In an ongoing project to shine more light on pregnancy centers that counsel women out of having abortions -– commonly known as “crisis pregnancy centers,” or CPCs –- NARAL Pro-Choice America’s Massachusetts affiliate has uncovered evidence that CPCs throughout the Bay State have, in some cases, provided women with More…
Under newly proposed legislation, the federal government would no longer fund projects that only teach sex education in the context of “abstinence only until marriage.”
The Illinois General Assembly will address a proposed state education bill mandating more comprehensive sex education in its fall veto session, which begins today. Anti-abortion-rights groups, such as the Illinois Family Institute and the Illinois Right to Life, have condemned the bill on morality charges and are trying to More…
The group that brought America “Undercover at Planned Parenthood,” a shaky, 11-minute video shot clandestinely by undercover anti-abortion-rights activists, is working on a new project aimed to convince more people that Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) does not deserve any federal funding for the non-abortion services it provides More…
UPDATE: Oct. 6 Amended with a correction.
A new congressional proposal to funnel federal grant money from sex-education programs that instruct in pregnancy and STI-preventive measures into abstinence-only curriculum evokes memories of a similar federally-mandated initiative that emerged during the Bush administration.
News that’s two days old but worth a second mention: District of Columbia Public Schools is instituting a standardized test that will gauge students’ health and sex education aptitude.
A sex education curriculum rife with factual flaws and medical inaccuracies continues to be taught to the state’s middle and high school students in at least 13 Central Texas school districts. This fall, though, at least one district will reconsider inviting presenters from the abstinence-based sex ed program Austin LifeGuard. More…
A new New York City education policy that mandates comprehensive sex education in all city public schools has caused ire within the Vatican.
For some, improving methods of pregnancy-prevention is an obvious middle ground in the abortion-rights debate; however, many of the same groups that oppose abortion rights often oppose public policies to expand sex education or improve access to affordable birth control. With the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service’s More…
A factually flawed sex education curriculum, taught to the state’s middle and high school students, remains popular in Central Texas public schools.
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