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Welcome to Overnight News Digest- Saturday Science. Since 2007 the OND has been a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of news stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with a ...
by Rise above the swamp
on Sat Nov 11, 2023 at 08:59 PM PST
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Republicans aren’t going to stop, apparently, until they have their elbows on the necks of LGBTQ, Black, brown, and Indigenous people, senior citizens, those living under the poverty level, and anyone who needs reproductive health care. The winning...
by Rebekah Sager
on Thu Feb 02, 2023 at 11:44 AM PST
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I had a discussion about the current season of The Bachelorette with female friends of mine in their 20s. The conversation took an interesting turn when the topic turned to couples living together before marriage. When I was a kid, “living in sin”...
by Doctor RJ
on Thu Aug 01, 2019 at 08:00 PM PDT
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Donald Trump may claim to be be the “Great Abstainer,” given his history I know that sounds ridiculous, but parents, teachers, and students in Colorado would rather teens learn real sex education. The Trump administration is using federal funds, an...
by Alan Singer
on Mon Feb 25, 2019 at 03:51 AM PST
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Between 2007 and 2015, the rate of teen pregnancies in the United States dropped approximately 50%. Much of the credit for that goes to federal and state educational programs that teach teenagers about birth control and making informed choices about...
by Dartagnan
on Sun May 06, 2018 at 06:41 AM PDT
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Thursday was International Women’s Day. Back home in the United States, it was just another day in the Republican war on women's rights . On Thursday the news broke that Mr. Popular Vote Loser ...
by Ian Reifowitz
on Sun Mar 11, 2018 at 12:00 PM PDT
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The not-so-dirty secret about religious moral practices being applied to public health is that it does not work. At all. Abstinence education has shown zero positive effect in reducing teen pregnancy. Maybe that’s because the “rules” in the bible and...
by Walter Einenkel
on Fri Sep 02, 2016 at 09:00 AM PDT
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George Walker Bush was the president of the United States when the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) was created. On the one hand PEPFAR was the most money ever dedicated to fighting the spread of HIV and treating AIDS in Africa, and...
by Walter Einenkel
on Thu May 05, 2016 at 10:02 AM PDT
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(Originally appeared in The Tulsa Voice )
L ast month, two bills were approved by House committees on education. The first, HB 2949 , passed by the House Education Committee, would ...
by vuzvilla
on Mon Mar 07, 2016 at 04:01 AM PST
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For over 10 years now, Nebraska has been dealing with skyrocketing rates in cases of sexually transmitted diseases. Omaha, in 2004, had rates of gonorrhea 50 percent higher than the national average.
by Walter Einenkel
on Thu Jan 21, 2016 at 08:35 AM PST
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Who could’ve seen this coming? When you don’t teach kids about safe sex, they tend to have sex anyway, minus the safe part:
The superintendent of schools in Crane, Texas is rethinking the
by Jen Hayden
on Mon Nov 09, 2015 at 08:49 AM PST
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I forgot to post this yesterday as I was very busy. This cartoon and the "Southern Mouring" cartoon have both gotten huge hits and shares. Yay.
Check out the blog, Claytoonz . There's always new ...
by claytoonz
on Sat Jun 27, 2015 at 11:17 AM PDT
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OK, it's been a big celebratory news day. Here' another little tidbit to add to the news overload of the day.
Bristol Palin is pregnant with her second child, and she's not married.
Surprisingly, ...
by stuhunter2
on Thu Jun 25, 2015 at 04:55 PM PDT
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The Texas way, in this case, is dumb
Texas has the third highest HIV diagnosis rate in the country. Texas is fifth highest in teen pregnancy rates.
by Walter Einenkel
on Thu Apr 02, 2015 at 01:25 PM PDT
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If Democrats outnumber Republicans by such a hefty margin,(1) why are we seeing the US slowly drifting toward the Conservative, or far-right, end of the political spectrum?
Due to an alliance ...
by SecularSchoolTeacher
on Sat Oct 25, 2014 at 11:06 AM PDT
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This week I was reading a paper by friend and fellow kossack Dirkster42, which included Dale Spender's observation that patriarchy strives to make women's resistance invisible, so that feminist ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
on Sat Dec 21, 2013 at 05:00 PM PST
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I apologize for the extensive quoting here, but I want to be fair. Mississippi is not nearly as backwards as the rest of the country thinks it is. Nor is it as enlightened as it thinks it is. We ...
by vickijean
on Sun Jun 16, 2013 at 04:00 PM PDT
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West Virginia high school senior Katelyn Campbell alleges that Principal George Aulenbacher of George Washington High School threatened to call Wellesley College, where she has been accepted, to ...
by Peyton Lee
on Sun Apr 28, 2013 at 05:30 PM PDT
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I found out about this from The Troubador's diary at the top of the rec list. You should read it. From the Charleston Gazette:
A student at George Washington High School asked for an injunction in ...
by Hubbard Squash
on Thu Apr 18, 2013 at 05:49 AM PDT
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What kind of women do the Republicans want in this country, especially women who apparently choose to be born poor in a world that worships BIG money?
To begin with, they should be educated in an ...
by starduster
on Tue Sep 25, 2012 at 08:08 PM PDT
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