Teen pregnancies, abortions on the rise: is it sex ed or media?
Teen pregnancies, abortions on the rise: is it sex ed or media?
A report out from the Guttmacher Institute shows that teenage pregnancies and abortions began to rise in 2005 after more than a decade on the decline. Proponents of comprehensive sex education say it’s clear evidence of the failure of President Bush’s abstinence-only sex education in public schools, while abstinence-only advocates blame the sex-saturated media culture of today and claim the Guttmacher study is overly simplistic. What’s causing the trend and will new Obama administration policies reverse it?
Guests:
Valerie Huber, Executive Director of the National Abstinence Education Association
Michael Males, senior research director at the Center for Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America
- Patt Morrison for February 4, 2010
- What’s wrong with a prayer breakfast?
- A cyclers’ paradise—a private highway?
- Can the Saints change New Orleans? View of the Super Bowl from the Lower 9th Ward
- Is Lancaster a growing “Christian community?”
- Teen pregnancies, abortions on the rise: is it sex ed or media?
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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