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Advocates Updates
- Seeking an intern for the International Division!
- Community-based Organizations: Apply to be a part of the Anti-Homophobia/Transphobia Project
- Join The Hanger Project - send a clear message that we can't go back to an era of back-alley abortions
- New article in the Parents Sex Ed Center
by Robie Harris, author of It's Perfectly Normal - Job opening: International Policy Manager
- Job opening: New Media Manager
Publications
New Publications:
Responsible Education About Life (REAL) Act
- U.S. seeking to hand off oversight of AIDS program (Washington Post)
Administration wants services to become routine for nations - Casual Sex - and no Emotional Wreckage? (Minneapolis Star-Tribune)
Results of a study on casual sex among young adults surprise researchers. - Reid Says Yes to Abstinence (CQ Politics)
Marcela Howell, a spokeswoman for the liberal Advocates for Youth, a longtime opponent of abstinence-only programs, said Reid’s addition to the bill was “an unfortunate move.”
by Emily Bridges, Director of Public Information Services
Yesterday the Senate dropped the Nelson-Hatch Amendment to the health care bill, which would have prevented under the public plan the purchase of healthcare policies which cover abortion. Advocates for Youth applauds this action.
However, against science, parents' wishes, and all logic, Senator Harry Reid has also introduced a provision which would restore funding for abstinence-only programs - those same failed, misleading, and homophobic programs for which President Obama ended funding in his federal budget.
Keep an eye on this space - we will update with how you can take action against this ridiculous step back into the Bush administration.
Read about yesterday's actions on health care in the Washington Post
