By now you’ve probably heard the news that one in four American teen girls has a sexually transmitted disease.
A new study from the CDC indicates that some 3 million American teen girls have at least one sexually transmitted disease, such as HPV or chlamydia.
But Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, blames comprehensive sex education for the STI epidemic.
"Current public health policies are clearly failing to reduce the spread of STDs among young women,” she told CitizenLink.com (and you'll just have to Google it because I ain't linking to that mess...mercy!) "Public health officials need to admit their failures that have led to kids paying the price. Funding irresponsible sex-ed programs, ones that encourage kids to be sexually active, 12 times higher than funding abstinence programs unsurprisingly results in more kids being sexually active."
Remember that quote the next time Planned Parenthood sends out a political action alert.
Remember it the next time you have a chance to stand up and give a voice to the truth.
Remember one in four the next time you have an opportunity to speak to young people.
Remember, get fired up and then do something about it.
One in four is what I am committed to change through pro-choice activism and why the struggle against anti-knowledge policy must continue…
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