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Governor should just say “no” to “abstinence only” dollars

By Paige Johnson , Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina What do North Carolina’s signature Smart Start and More at Four programs for preschoolers have in common with comprehensive sex...

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Reduce teen pregnancies to reduce the dropout rate

For a senior in high school, there is no greater season than spring. Warm weather and trees in bloom seem to coincide with a 12th grader’s growing sense of triumph and potential. Prom night, family...

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Comprehensive sex education makes for healthier kids

Kissing babies makes for a great photo op when politicians are on the campaign trail. Most legislators claim to care about children. But what happens when young people are beyond the age of a photo op,...

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Suffering until suffrage

Recently, Americans celebrated the 88th Anniversary of women's suffrage in the United States. One hundred and forty-four years after the founding of this country, women-representing more than half the...

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Finding common ground on birth control

It was a snow day like no other. With schools and businesses closed, a record number of North Carolinians tuned in to watch the 44th President sworn in to office. For many viewers, the day ushered in a...

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Comprehensive sex education: Equipping kids to survive

If a thirteen year old enrolls in 8th grade Spanish, should her parents fear she’ll start packing her bags for Madrid as soon as the semester is over? Not likely. Yet opponents of comprehensive sex...

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A political conspiracy to endanger women’s health

It sounds like a conspiracy plot straight out of a Margaret Atwood novel. Within a course of two weeks, mostly behind closed doors, politicians, bureaucrats and trustees strip reproductive health...

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A very happy anniversary

From today's perspective, it's hard to imagine a medical breakthrough so monumental that it would be known universally as "the Pill." But that's exactly what happened fifty years ago this month when...

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Time for another Suffrage Parade

This month marks the 90th Anniversary of women's suffrage in the United States and it's looking more and more like time for another Suffrage Parade. In 1913, Alice Paul and friends organized the...

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Radical anti-choice bills are out of step with voters

The recent U.S. Supreme Court hearings regarding the freedom to marry make clear how desperately outdated North Carolina’s legislature was last year to put Amendment One on the ballot. Of course, it...

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Radical anti-choice bills are out of step with voters

The recent U.S. Supreme Court hearings regarding the freedom to marry make clear how desperately outdated North Carolina’s legislature was last year to put Amendment One on the ballot. Of course, it...

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Plan to deny women prenatal care deals double blow to reproductive health care

Cuts in maternity care trigger cuts in family planning The North Carolina Senate’s move to deny pregnant women Medicaid coverage for prenatal care betrays a shocking lack of compassion. It also shows...

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Governor should just say “no” to “abstinence only” dollars

By Paige Johnson , Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina What do North Carolina’s signature Smart Start and More at Four programs for preschoolers have in common with comprehensive sex...

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Reduce teen pregnancies to reduce the dropout rate

For a senior in high school, there is no greater season than spring. Warm weather and trees in bloom seem to coincide with a 12th grader’s growing sense of triumph and potential. Prom night, family...

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