We must seize this opportunity to promote a truly science-based, holistic, HIV prevention strategy for young people in the U.S. and abroad. In the end, it is young people who hold the key to ending this epidemic. That's why they should be at the center, not the periphery, of our programs and policies.
When clients come to the Downtown Planned Parenthood Clinic in Austin, Texas, they're coming to get what they've always gotten: contraception, cancer screenings and STI tests. But what they're getting, if they're on the newly defunded Medicaid Women's Health Program, is bad news: Planned Parenthood can't see them any more.
The Arkansas Supreme Court recently over-ruled a law prohibiting teachers from having sex with students over 18. With this decision, age once again takes center stage when the more important questions are about the relationship itself.
With all the negative attention given to anti-choice legislation passed in Wisconsin recently and Senators saying silly things, it’s easy to look over the fact that Wisconsin is actually winning when it comes to innovation in contraceptive service delivery.
It is incredibly frustrating that the very women the federal Medicaid law is intended to protect are the ones who are hurt the most, but those sanctions are the only tool HHS has at its disposal to enforce the law.
The Supreme Court looks over one aspect of the Affordable Care Act, but make no mistake, this isn't about constitutional principles. Also, a Christian author takes on Christian sexual ethics.
