Last Mother’s Day, apparel brand Calvin Klein posted pictures of different parents and families on Instagram to celebrate “women and mothers all over the world” and highlight “the realities of new families.” The couple that got the most attention,…
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This blog post is from the latest Winter 2017 edition of our magazine. Subscribe to Sex, Etc. Luis Miguel Bermúdez first began teaching sex education at one of Colombia’s biggest public schools in 2010. Located in the city of Bogotá, […]
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When my friend Jenna* called me crying, terrified she was pregnant at sixteen, I knew I had to get someone else to help her because I was definitely not qualified to handle this. In the chaos of it all, I […]
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Despite a decline in teen pregnancy rates over the past few years, there are still many teenagers who become parents. As you can imagine, teen parents face a lot of challenges. It’s already hard enough to balance things like grades, extracurricular…
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I was so happy to find out that Planned Parenthood is doing something that is at once radical and simple: allowing virtual visits for clients in need of birth control through an app. The whole process is relatively simple. Download […]
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Two years ago, Arizona passed a law that requires schools to present childbirth and adoption as preferred options to abortion. And just a few weeks ago, a suburban Phoenix school board voted to change a chapter in an honors biology […]
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There was something big happening in Colorado on Tuesday—something very serious. Colorado was trying to pass Amendment 67, which is a “personhood” amendment. What “personhood” means is that a fertilized egg would have the same human rights…
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We’ve heard of birth control methods that are long-acting, meaning they are effective for three months or up to 10 years without a girl or woman having to do anything. These birth control methods, like intrauterine devices and implants, are […]
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