Sentences with phrase «information about abstinence»

«Minnesotans understand that young people need information about abstinence and contraception and that sex education does not encourage young people to have sex.»

Planned Parenthood is a leading advocate for school education programs that will keep teens healthy — by including information about abstinence as well as about contraception, healthy communication, responsible decision making, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections.

We need education programs in our schools that will keep teens healthy — by including information about abstinence as well as contraception, healthy communication, responsible decision making, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections.

«With President Obama, we have a leader who agrees with what doctors, scientists, parents and teens have been saying for years: comprehensive sex education, including information about abstinence as well as contraception, helps prevent teen pregnancies,» said Richards.

Our educators emphasize information about abstinence as the best way to avoid sexually transmitted infections and unintended pregnancy.

We need education programs in our schools that will keep teens healthy and help to reduce teen pregnancy — by including information about abstinence as well as contraception, healthy communication, responsible decision making, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections.»

This is positive news for America's teens, as federal funding should be directed toward comprehensive sex education programs that will keep teens healthy — by including information about abstinence as well as contraception, healthy communication, responsible decision making, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections.

«American families deserve education programs that will keep their teens safe — programs that include information about abstinence as well as contraception, healthy communication, responsible decision making, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections.»

Federal funding should be directed toward comprehensive sex education programs that will keep teens healthy — by including information about abstinence as well as contraception, healthy communication, responsible decision making, and prevention of sexually transmitted infections.

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• Abstinence - only - until - marriage programs threaten fundamental human rights by withholding information about human sexuality and potentially providing medically inaccurate and stigmatizing information.

That means we provide young people with medically accurate information about human anatomy and talk frankly about birth control options, sexually transmitted infections, safer sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and sexual choices (including, but not limited to, abstinence).

, a pro-life ministry in nearby Forest City that provides services to low - income women with children under the age of three and «has a general concern for sharing the love of Jesus Christ through both actions and words» by providing information about prenatal development, abortion and abstinence education.

This curriculum includes information about condom use as well as abstinence.

• Strong evidence suggests that approaches to sex education that include information about both contraception and abstinence help young people to delay sex, and also to have healthy relationships and avoid STDs and unintended pregnancies when they do become sexually active.

Adolescents reported that they need practical information about how to prevent STIs (including HIV), how to prevent unintended pregnancy, and how to communicate and negotiate within relationships, issues not adequately covered in abstinence - focused curricula.

It is estimated that only 10 percent of all American school districts have a sexuality education policy that is comprehensive and includes information about contraception and safer sex in addition to abstinence.

In addition, the final budget bill allocated no additional funds for dangerous abstinence - only programs that deny teens information about how to prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections like HIV / AIDS.

Having reached more than 150,000 teenagers since its inception in 1984, the TAP peer educators give their peers the honest, factual information they need about everything from the benefits of abstinence, to different methods of birth control, to the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, to self - esteem and relationships.

Nobody's Fool in Waco is a nationally recognized comprehensive sex education program for young people that encourages abstinence, promotes parent - child communication, and delivers medically accurate and age - appropriate information about sexuality.

President Bush recently requested a $ 28 million increase in the FY»08 budget for abstinence - only programs, which have been widely criticized for denying teens life - saving information about how to protect themselves from unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

«Congress should put the right foot forward and immediately stop funding for abstinence - only programs that deny young people information about how to prevent pregnancy, protect their health and make responsible decisions.

Abstinence - only programs deny teenagers medically accurate information about birth control and about preventing sexually transmitted infections.

Despite the fact that the women who come to them are clearly sexually active and at risk for unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection, CPCs lecture them about abstinence instead of explaining contraception, if they provide any sexual health information at all.

Congress should put the right foot forward and immediately stop funding for dangerous abstinence - only programs that deny young people information about how to prevent pregnancy, protect their health and make responsible decisions.

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Although PREP was mainly an abstinence only program, it did provide information about consent, teen pregnancy, and sexually - transmitted infections.

Kyrene School District currently uses abstinence - only - until marriage curricula, but supplements the information with outside sources, for instance by inviting representatives from the health department to talk to students about sexually transmitted diseases and condom use.

In 2004, a committee headed by Rep. Henry Waxman (D - CA) prepared a report based on a review of the curricula of more than a dozen abstinence - only programs - and found that two - thirds of federally funded abstinence - only programs distribute «false, misleading, or distorted information about reproductive health.»