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Carville: McCain Too Honorable to Have Approved Sleazy Ad

2008-10-31T03:30:58Z

James Carville on CNN, September 10, 2008

The Side-Effects of Abstinence-Only Education

2008-10-31T14:01:48Z

Teen pregnancy is on the rise in America for the first time since 1991. One in three teenage girls in the US becomes pregnant. Recent media hype and movies like Juno give teen pregnancy a certain kind of treatment.

America News Project went to one health center in the Northeast of Washington, DC to explore the real thing.

http://newsproject.org

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Waxman Abstinence Only Testimony-2

2008-12-02T22:22:17Z

Testimony from Henry Waxman's Abstinence-Only Testimony April 23, 2008.
Part Two: Testimony of Shelby Knox, subject of a Sundance Award winning PBS documentary on sex education in a Texas public school. Knox, 23, is now a speaker and sexual health educator.

Several new studies, one by the federal government have concluded that federally fund "Abstinence-only" sexual education programs have led to a slight increase in teenage STD rates. The United States has one of the highest STD rates in the developed world.

Here's a snapshot, from a 2000 study, on how US STD rates compare to those of European countries, which generally teach comprehensive sexual education, including the use of barrier-method contraception, to teenagers:

"In the United States, the estimated HIV prevalence rate in young men ages 15 to 24 is over five times higher than the rate in Germany, nearly three times higher than the rate in the Netherlands, and about 1 1⁄2 times higher than that in France... In the United States, the estimated HIV prevalence rate in young women ages 15 to 24 is six times higher than the rate in Germany, nearly three times higher than the rate in the Netherlands, and is the same as that in France... In the United States, the teen syphilis rate is over six times higher than that of the Netherlands, over five times higher than the rate in former West Germany, and nearly three times higher than that in former East Germany. Data are not available for France... In the United States, the teen gonorrhea rate is over 74 times higher than that in the Netherlands and France, over 66 times higher than the rate in former West Germany, and over 38 times higher than that in former East Germany... In the United States, the teen chlamydia rate is over 20 times higher than that in France. Data are not available for Germany or the Netherlands.

SOURCE

http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/publications/factsheet/fsest.htm#6

approximate date of study : 2000

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Dan Savage and Amy Richards on Abstinence-Only Sex Education

2008-10-24T03:30:30Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Advice columnists Dan Savage and Amy Richards argue that abstinence-only sex education does not adequately instruct teens on the realities of sexual health. This program contains sexually explicit language.

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In the July 18th, 2004 issue of The New York Times Magazine, feminist activist Amy Richards gave her account of deciding to undergo "selective reduction." The procedure reduces the number of fetuses carried by a pregnant woman - in Richards' case, from triplets to one baby.

Her controversial choice reignited debates about reproductive freedom and the ethics of choice. Richards recounts the backlash of the article and the many challenges of raising her son in Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing Yourself. Richards is co-founder of The Third Wave Foundation and has written feminist.com's advice column "Ask Amy" since 1995.

Internationally-syndicated columnist Dan Savage dispenses with taboos when writing about sex and relationships. Since 1991, his column "Savage Love" has offered advice that examines and dispels conservative models of love, sex, and family.

With great humor, Savage encourages a "good, giving, and game" approach to safe sexual experimentation and skepticism of "simplistic" views of monogamy. Dan Savage is also a contributor to "This American Life" and editorial director of The Stranger, the Seattle weekly that first published his popular column.

His book The Kid relates Savage's experiences adopting a baby boy with his partner. The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family, his memoir of family, includes Savage's commentary on the gay marriage debate - City Arts and Lectures

Daniel Savage is an American sex advice columnist, author, media pundit, journalist, and newspaper editor. Savage is best known for penning the internationally syndicated relationship and sex advice column Savage Love. Its tone is humorous, profane, and often hostile to social conservatives, as in the Santorum controversy.

Savage has often been the subject of controversy regarding his opinions that pointedly clash with both traditional conservative moral values and those put forth by what Savage has been known to call the "gay establishment".

Amy Richards is co-founder of The Third Wave Foundation and has written feminist.com's advice column "Ask Amy" since 1995.

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AskSamHarris.com #5 Oprah Do Dishes?, Where Babies Come From

2008-10-23T09:32:46Z

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What Does It Mean to be "Pro-Choice?"

2008-10-19T09:30:50Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Nancy Keenan, President of NARAL Pro-Choice America, discusses the meaning of the term "pro-choice" as it relates to the abortion debate.

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The Wolfson Center for National Affairs at The New School presents "The Abortion Controversies," a panel discussion focusing on the Supreme Court's recent decision in Gonzalez v. Carhart, which has thrown the status of Roe v. Wade into doubt and suggests that the controversy may be reaching a new level of intensity.

Marjorie Heins, founder and coordinator of the Free Expression Policy Project at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU's School of Law will moderate a discussion of this historic decision with Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, Daniel C. Maguire, professor of moral theological ethics, Marquette University, and author of Sacred Rights, and Caitlin Borgmann, assistant professor, CUNY School of Law and editor of the Reproductive Rights Prof Blog. - The New School

Nancy Keenan is the current president of the United States-based abortion rights network NARAL Pro-Choice America. Keenan has also served in the Montana legislature and was the Superintendent of Public Instruction as a Democrat for the state of Montana from 1988-2000.

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Great Analysis Of FoxNews Bias

2008-11-23T02:27:50Z

They hit Obama for using notes, but not President No Brain for the same offense (like he ever hasn't used notes for anything, including clearing brush and trying to eat pretzels?).

They also go after Obama on sex ed, because apparently Fox has no interest in protecting kindergarten-age children from sexual predators (when the young girls get a bit older and work for O'Reilly they'll have to find out the hard way I guess).

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Uh Oh, Mitt Romney's Lying Again

2008-10-14T11:26:02Z

What's new. He attacks Obama with a quote that Pat Robertson's CBN called "unfair." Nothing new for this vacuous, pathetically sad panderer who has absolutely no core convictions except his personal advancement.

Wow, am I going to enjoy watching him get his ass kicked whether in the primary or general election.

(h/t PoliticsTV)

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Amb. Mark Dybul - AIDS, Abstinence and Faith-Based NGOs

2008-10-15T09:29:44Z

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Ambassador Mark Dybul, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, defends the Bush Administration's reliance on abstinence education and assistance from faith-based organizations in waging the fight against global AIDS.

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"Global HIV/AIDS and the U.S. Government's Response: The Power of Partnerships" with Ambassador Mark Dybul.

The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is the largest commitment ever by a single nation to an international health initiative; by 2008, the program will have spent $18.3 billion on anti-retroviral treatment in 15 focus nations.

Ambassador Dybul discusses the role of anti-retroviral drugs in the fight against the raging global epidemic and the partnerships that have helped almost 1 million people get treatment. -- Commonwealth Club of California

Ambassador Mark R. Dybul serves as the United States Global AIDS Coordinator, leading the implementation of President Bush's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. From March to August 2006, he served as Acting U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, and prior to that he held the positions of Deputy U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Assistant U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator.

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Abstinence-only sex ed

2008-12-02T22:38:35Z

A short clip based on the comic "From the people who brought you abstinence-only sex education:" by saintgasoline.com

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Al Gore's Movie Banned in Seattle

2008-10-16T03:31:09Z

The Young Turks: Cenk Uygur, Ben Mankiewicz, and Jill Pike talk about Al Gore's Movie. Watch live from 6-9AM ET on www.theyoungturks.com. Listen from 6-9AM ET on Air America Radio.

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