Tag: sex education

There has been enough press coverage on the Missouri Representative’s Dark Ages ideas on rape that I don’t need to reprise the issue again here on Blogging Blue. But rather than this plank from the 2012 Republican Party Platform: The Republican campaign platform denounces contraceptive education in schools. Instead, it…

As usual, conservatives don’t understand how to analyze data outside of their ideological frame.  Take the decline in teen birth rates, for instance. Some voices on the right unconvincingly assign credit for the latest change to abstinence-only sex education, even though the percentage of sexually active teenagers has remained fairly…

Yesterday our very own Steven noted that instead of focusing on jobs and our state’s economy, Republicans in Wisconsin’s legislature are busy legislating away comprehensive sex education for Wisconsin’s students, and he noted how studies have shown the abstinence-only sex education Republicans want to implement is an ineffective failure. While…

More job creation by the Republicans in the Wisconsin State Legislature today from State Senator Mary Lazich of Burlington, who wishes to do away with providing comprehensive sex education to students in the state.  It seems clear from the article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that she’s proposed the measure…