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During a routine ultrasound en route to Martha’s Vineyard, the Fairchilds’ doctor discovered that Naia had a hole in her heart. The condition would require open heart surgery a month after her birth...
...only programs and favors more traditional, secular sexual education programs. However, this skepticism about the abstinence crusade extends beyond the medical community. A survey conducted by the Sexuality Information and Education Council shows that over 80 percent of low income parents want their children to learn how to use birth control and how to protect against HIV/AIDS and other STDs...
What's different now? The '90s presented a mixed picture of teen sexual health. There was a solid 20% decline in the teen birth rate, and according to a CDC report released last week, sexual activity decreased 15%. But the incidence of certain sexually transmitted diseases rose among adolescents. A quarter of all new HIV cases today occur in those ages 21 and younger. And doctors are reporting more frequent diagnoses of herpes and the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which is linked to cervical cancer and is thought to infect more than 15% of sexually active teens. The last figure...
That Sulak should be leading this charge is a little surprising. She is a highly respected contraceptive expert who has devoted the past decade to researching the birth-control pill. She came to her latest cause seven years ago when she was asked to help choose a sex-ed program for her son's middle school. The curriculums she examined were steeped in ideology and medical errors. So she designed one, drawing extensively on data from the National Institutes of Health and the CDC. "All we've done is state facts," she says, "and you can't argue with facts...