Today the National Abstinence Education Association is having their annual Capitol Hill lobby day. They're planning on meeting with legislators to ask them to continue funding ineffective, inaccurate, misleading and dangerous abstinence only education.
Amplify Your Voice has the full story and a call to action:
This is where you come in: the progressive blogosphere, the reproductive justice community, and youth advocates. We have to make sure that the NAEA's message is not the only side of the story that Congress hears tomorrow. For every lobbyist that a representative gets in their office tomorrow morning, we need 100 letters from our side to counter them.I urge you to send this letter to your Congressperson, asking them to defund abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.
After a decade of these ineffective programs spending $1.5 billion to misinform and endanger the sexual health of countless youth, it is time to finally bring change to Washington and America.
Word. Please start writing those emails now - and send this link to your friends and ask them to do the same!
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I always get depressed when you post things like this. I live in Oklahoma, so there's no way in hell my Senators would do anything remotely progressive.
I feel the same way about my senators here in Tennessee, but I decided to pester them anyway. It can't hurt to add your voice.
Another Tennesseean here who sends e-mails knowing they will fall on deaf ears. Between Lamar Alexander, Bob Corker, and Zach Wamp, the abstinence-only folks will have all too captive an audience. Oh well, at least I can say I tried.
Send 'em here:
http://www.tfn.org/site/PageServer?pagename=JustSayDontKnow
FYI: Religious leaders are fighting ab-only, too. This morning my organization the Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing sent a letter to the White House, on behalf of more than 925 ordained clergy and national religious leaders, urging an end to federal funding for the three abstinence-only-until-marriage programs and calling for a new national commitment to comprehensive sexuality education.
You can read more at my director's blog: http://www.debrahaffner.blogspot.com.
Thanks Jessica!
Thanks for the heads up. I'm in NC and understand that this may land on tin ears but if it's heard it's one small step.
Texas -- =( But I live in a blue county!
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