Melissa's post on the Tale of Two Stories got me thinking and searching the internets (wink).
Teen births are up 3% (5% among black teens) and in my home city of St. Louis Missouri we are in the midst of a youth std epidemic. So, how fucking hard is it to connect the rise in teen pregnancies and the rise in teen std infection rates with a reduction in safer sex practices among teens?
Pretty fucking hard if you ask Stephanie Ventura of the CDC, who seems to be a wee bit lost. "I don't know if the use of contraception among teens has changed. We just don't know what's happened."
Blink.
Fucked up policy happened, Stephanie!
Shit, the blessed CDC needs a comprehensive sex education intervention...again.
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