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A few news links for you all

Trojan Condoms has sponsored a study about access to sexual health resources on college campuses. They've ranked colleges based on access to information (University of Michigan is #2.)

Michigan is considering requiring girls entering the 6th grade to get the HPV vaccine. HPV is a s sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. Some parents on the crazy radical right don't want their daughters vaccinated against HPV because they think it sends the message that sex is ok. Hopefully, a law will encourage more of them to get their kids the vaccine. It would take a pretty awful person to risk their child getting cancer just to show them sex is wrong. Heaven forbid you just talk openly with your kids about your personal beliefs!

Here is a great opinion piece from Texas State University about a new Domestic Abuse hotline for teens. The author suggests adding information about domestic abuse to teen sex ed classes. Those of you who know me probably know that the sorry state of sex ed in this country is one of my biggest pet peeves.

I've been saying for a long time that the far right wingers were going to attack contraception just as they have been attacking abortion. Some of you thought that was a slippery slope argument. Here is a Chicago Tribune article about the new war on contraception. Hopefully, this will backfire in their faces and make them lose ground on abortion too. Earth to fundies: when you start trying to tell married couples that they can only have sex to make babies, you lose a lot of support.

posted by Mia @ 1:48 PM