Abstinence

Planned Parenthood sued the Trump administration Wednesday in an effort to block conservative changes to Title X, a family planning grant program.

If there's an upside to the government's failure to promote legitimate sex education, it's been the convergent rise of the local sex shop and the university seminar as two venues for frank and meaningful discussion.

Contraception works, especially when it's free. Abstinence, not so much.

Achieving one of those results is hard enough. And recent experiments suggest we may not be able to have both even if we want to.

New research suggests that lowering the hurdles to publicly-funded female sterilization could do both of those things.