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A woman sits in the exam room at a Planned Parenthood health center on in West Palm Beach, Florida.

News in Brief

Planned Parenthood Sues the Trump Administration for Proposing Conservative Changes to Its Grant Program

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

Ashley Hackett

A Babeland store manager arranges merchandise in New York on February 4th, 2015.

Education

How Local Shops and Seminar Rooms Are Reviving Sex Education

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.

James McWilliams

News in Brief

The New Spending Agreement Revives Abstinence Education

Congressional leaders in Washington reached an agreement last night that extends the government budget through the end of…

Francie Diep

News in Brief

No Sex, Please—We’re Millennials

New research finds an increasing percentage of Americans in their early 20s are abstaining from sexual activity. By…

Pacific Standard Staff

News in Brief

Colorado May Have Just Put Abstinence-Only Education to Bed Once and for All

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

Jared Keller

Social Justice

Should Drug Treatment Aim to End Use or Reduce Harm?

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.

Chris Uggen

Social Justice

How to Prevent Unwanted Pregnancies and Save Money at the Same Time

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

Paul Hiebert