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...Prom Night last week, senior class officers at Benicia High School in California assembled some party favors -- a gift-wrapped condom, a Planned Parenthood pamphlet advocating abstinence and a piece of candy. "We know Prom Night is a big night for a lot of people, sexually," senior Lisa Puryear told the San Jose Mercury News. "We were trying to spread a little responsible behavior." But administrators confiscated the 375 condoms, arguing that the school-sponsored event is no place for sex education...
...effective. Opponents argue that in an age in which most teenagers are already sexually active, preaching the case for chastity without teaching the case for condoms is dangerously naive. "All the parents I know are absolutely in favor of abstinence," says Carole Chervin, senior staff attorney for the Planned Parenthood Federation. "It's the abstinence only approach that's bothersome. We believe sex education should be comprehensive...
...survey in mind, perhaps it is time to rethink Take Our Daughters to Work Day: it may make more sense to let sons follow their mothers to work and witness their treatment, while daughters and fathers stay at home for the day to reinvent the politics of parenthood...
Women's groups including Planned Parenthood and NOW reject Baird as "irrelevant." Robin Morgan, editor of Ms. magazine, called him "one of the more male-supremacist men around" and accused him of fighting for women's rights in order to get them to sleep with...
Otherwise, pro-life demonstrators outside an abortion clinic should not be condemned as violators of a woman's right to privacy, even when they approach her with information on adoption and support for pregnant women. This is no different from what Planned Parenthood workers do when they give out pamphlets on abortion. It is no more intrusive to have a perfect stranger tell you how to have your baby adopted than to be told about how to have it aborted...