Posted on January 27th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
On Blogging for Choice day, the 35th anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision on abortion, I wrote a post for my other blog about anti-abortion eighth graders at a Catholic school. That post was read on the air and discussed on the Head On Radio Network, and you can hear the whole discussion [...]
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Posted on January 6th, 2008 by Freckles Cassie
I wrote about this issue once before. I am very glad that I got the vaccine and I hope that other states will do what Texas has done. Health care is more important than scaring girls into being celibate.
Here’s the update:
After controversy, more HPV vaccinations, doctors say
from Star-Telegram
Some pediatricians say last year’s controversy over [...]
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Posted on December 20th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
So, the new research on sex education shows that if y’all bother to teach us the real facts of sex education, we tend to be more responsible about sex and even to wait longer before we start. So, of course the right wingers prefer not to teach us and just hope we do what they [...]
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Posted on December 19th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
What age is old enough to have sex? When are we old enough to have babies? Is statutory rape a fair law? Is a 9th grade girl with a 19-year-old boyfriend different from two high school seniors, one at 17 and one 19? What about kids who come from countries where lots of people [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2007 by Freckles Cassie
Daisy, in the post below, seems surprised at how religiously biased and anti-scientific sex education has become. I live in Texas and I am still in HS, so it doesn’t surprise me at all. “Say no until you are married” is about half of what they tell us in school. But —– neither school nor [...]
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