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The Florida Association of Planned Parenthood Affiliates (FAPPA) is the state public policy office representing Florida’s five Planned Parenthood affiliates. FAPPA works to advance public policy in areas of reproductive health care, family planning and medically-accurate sex education in order to make comprehensive reproductive health care available to all.

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Our view: No, it's not OK

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Teen star's pregnancy underscores dangers of abstinence-only sex-education in Florida

Floirda Today Editorial, January 5, 2008

By now everyone knows Jamie Lynn Spears, the 16-year-old star of television's "Zoey 101" and sister of train wreck pop star Britney, is pregnant.

She could be the anti-poster child for the Bush administration's failed abstinence-only sex education programs.

Tampa Tribune editorial: Chastity Is The Ideal, But School Sex Ed Must Recognize Reality

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January 2, 2008

With more states declining an abstinence-only approach to sex education, Florida remains a big promoter of abstinence education, even as new studies show the emphasis is failing to keep many kids from having sex.

Florida isn't wrong to make abstinence outside of marriage the "expected standard" in sex education. Teen sex rates were on the decline for a decade before hitting a plateau in 2001, and the message of abstinence - whether it comes from parents, teachers or peers - deserves some credit.

Stop Delaying Sex Ed

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Palm Beach Post Editorial

Sunday, December 30, 2007

While Palm Beach County Schools Superintendent Art Johnson has ignored sex education out of fear of a public backlash from a minority of parents, 17 percent of the county's teens ages 15-19 who had given birth before at least a second time between 2004 and 2006.

Pregnancies, HIV propel expanded sex ed efforts

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By WHITNEY BOYD

Palm Beach Post-Cox News Service

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Planned Parenthood Praises New Mexico’s Rejection Of Federal Funds for Wasteful Abstinence-Only Programs

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NM Joins Growing List of States Saying No to Programs Proven to Fail

Washington, DC – Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) President Cecile Richards praised New Mexico health officials today for rejecting federal funding for ineffective abstinence-only programs that deny teenagers potentially lifesaving information about prevention and responsible decision making. New Mexico, the 15th state to reject the funding, has pledged to teach comprehensive, medically accurate sex education.

Abstinence-only? Abstain

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Palm Beach Post Editorial
Saturday, December 15, 2007

Twenty-thousand more babies were born to teenagers in 2006 than in 2005. The increase in the teen birth rate was the first in 15 years - proof, obviously, that abstinence-only education is working.

Stunningly illogical, right?

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Rise in Teen Birth Rates Further Proof Abstinence-Only Not Working

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Sun-Sentinel
Editorial Board
December 12, 2007

ISSUE: Teen birth rate rises for the first time in 15 years.

U.S. health officials were reportedly stunned by the news, and at a loss to explain it.

But for the more plugged-in experts, the dismaying rise in the teen birth rate in America is just the latest symptom of a failed sex eduction program that has increasingly relied on abstinence-only teachings.

What is it going to take before the nation grasps the reality that giving hormone-raging youngsters limited information on how to avoid pregnancy and disease just doesn't cut it?

Victory in St. Lucie: Local Planned Parenthood Applauds School Board Members

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West Palm Beach, FL—Planned Parenthood of Greater Miami, Palm Beach and the Treasure Coast would like to applaud the St. Lucie County School Board members for approving the Get Real About AIDS sex education curriculum last night.

Planned Parenthood Applauds Senators Obama, McCaskill, Kennedy and Murray for leadership on Prevention Through Affordable Access

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Bill Will Restore Affordable Birth Control for College Students and Low-Income Women

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), praised Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) and Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) for introducing The Prevention Through Affordable Access Act, which would fix the affordable birth control crisis affecting college health clinics and safety-net providers and restore affordable birth control pricing for college students and low-income women. Richards also praised Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) for their leadership on this important health care issue.

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