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State Gives Up on Feds’ Peek-a-boo Game on Abstinence Funding

Like tempestuous teenagers, federal lawmakers can't make up their minds how to fund an abstinence-only program -- if at all. So, Colorado took matters...

Congress Plays ‘Hide the Salami’ with Abstinence-Only Funding

We may want our kids to "just say no," but when it comes to doling out abstinence-only funding, Congress isn't abstaining. In the latest...

Pregnancy Rates Skyrocket Among Latina Teens

Latina teens are giving birth at alarming rates. Reproductive health activists work to find answers in the midst of cultural obstacles that pave a...

Colorado HIV Privacy Law at Odds with Feds

A new study reveals that more than two-thirds of states, including Colorado, are not in compliance with new federal guidelines on HIV testing.Researchers at...

Abortion Rates Unaffected by Laws, Abstinence Push

A new international study calls into question the argument that outlawing abortions and focusing on abstinence education deters women from terminating pregnancies. Is the...

Six Babies a Day: Colorado’s Teen Pregnancy Problem

As high school seniors plan for Homecoming dances next month too many of their peers are coming home with something far more unexpected --...

Feds Extend Abstinence-Only Funding

Congress approved another emergency 90-day extention for a contentious grant program to support abstinence-only education ahead of the September 30 fiscal year deadline. Spared...

Feds Extend Abstinence-Only Funding

Congress approved another emergency 90-day extention for a contentious grant program to support abstinence-only education ahead of the September 30 fiscal year deadline. Spared...

Feds Extend Abstinence-Only Funding

Congress approved another emergency 90-day extention for a contentious grant program to support abstinence-only education ahead of the September 30 fiscal year deadline. Spared...

SCHIP Veto to Kill Dems’ Abstinence-Only Fix

Proponents of comprehensive sex education scored a small victory yesterday when the U.S. Senate stripped a $100 million provision to fund a controversial abstinence-only...
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