Today I stumbled across this article written by Madeleine
French in the UK Guardian, Oct 19th. It's a great summary of
what direction adolescent sexual health could go, depending on
who wins Tuesday's election. It's pretty frightening. As a UK
citizen living in the US, I can't vote. I just WISH I could...
Read on and get voting!   At some point this year, somewhere in
the US, a teenage girl will decide she wants to have sex. She
might not know when, or who with, but she has made that choice.
Unfortunately for her, this is a turbulent and uncertain year to
be making sexual and reproductive health choices in the US.  If
a student, she might have been relieved when Barack
Obama's Affordable Care Act passed in June, knowing she can
access student health plans that provide free contraception. She
may already be benefiting from the Teenage Pregnancy Prevention
Initiative launched by Obama in 2010, which funds school sex
education programmes that show evidence of success, those
predominantly promoting contraception