Blogs Comment On Crisis Pregnancy Centers, Sex Education Funding, Other Topics

The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “A New Fight Over Abortion Access,” Joyce Tang, Daily Beast’s “Blogs & Stories”: Antiabortion-rights crisis pregnancy centers “have long operated under the guise of reproductive health care” and “been largely unregulated, even though they are eligible for federal abstinence-only funding,” Tang writes…

Potential Changes In Federal Sex Education Funding Reignite Debate In Illinois Schools

The Chicago Tribune on Wednesday examined the debate in Illinois over whether schools should teach abstinence-only or comprehensive sex education curricula. Currently, nearly two in five Illinois students are taught abstinence-only, and nine in 10 Illinois health teachers cover abstinence in some form.