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Abstinence Education FAIL

A big report from the federal government and the nation’s top reproductive-health think tank shows damning evidence about the impacts of the last decade of sex ed in our country: the pregnancy rate for 15-to-19-year-olds increased 3 percent between 2005 and 2006, the first jump since 1990. The abortion rate increased one percent. As the […]

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Teens and Sexting

Iowa’s Attorney General has an outbreak of sane: Concerned that Iowa laws could bring overly harsh penalties for teenagers who send explicit electronic images, commonly called “sexting,” the Iowa Attorney General’s office will ask lawmakers to give prosecutors another option. Under the state’s current laws, a teenager engaged in sexting could face an aggravated misdemeanor […]

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