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03 September 2009

What I do for work...on CNN today! [More:]
Last week I got a last-minute phone call that CNN was going to be taping a segment for their morning show about some changes in the sex education laws here in NC. The organization that CNN was working with asked me if I could get some of the young people I worked with to be interviewed. Short notice, but I was able to reach one young woman. She's the one with an excellent sound-bite in the video. (Here's the transcript if you don't want video.)

There was a small possibility that I was going to be interviewed, too, but I escaped, thank goodness!

I really wish you all could have heard this panel of young men and women who work tirelessly to help their peers prevent pregnancy and STDs. The conversations I hear and the wisdom the teens give me is what keeps me going on a day-to-day basis. They are so great.
That is very cool.
posted by JanetLand 03 September | 08:04
I saw it this morning! Your girl was definitely the most articulate in the bunch, probably in the whole segment.
posted by BoringPostcards 03 September | 08:15
Well, the whole group was pretty articulate, to tell the truth. I think what my gal said was just the strongest example of how bad it got. I hate it when people who oppose giving kids more information to work with don't recognize or even deny that good sex ed spends a lot of time giving kids the skills and information they need to stay abstinent. It just also gives them the skills and information to reduce risk of pregnancy and STDs when they do eventually become sexually active.
posted by Stewriffic 03 September | 08:24
Stew I think what you do is so very valuable & awesome. Makes me proud to know you.
posted by chewatadistance 03 September | 09:19
Stewriffic, I must echo chewatadistance's sentiment, what you do is cool as hell, and I am proud to know you. Good work, girl!
posted by msali 03 September | 09:28
That is so very awesome :D
posted by sperose 03 September | 09:44
It would have been a lot more effective to have a bunch of pregnant girls or ones with smudge-face yard-apes hanging on their calves talk forthrightly about how well abstinence education works.

B ut then my mind works that way. ;-)
posted by dhartung 03 September | 12:31
You do great and important work! On your down days I'll be proud for you!
posted by birdie 03 September | 20:15
I'm kind of creeped out by it, to tell you the truth.
posted by Stewriffic 04 September | 09:59
!!! ?
posted by chewatadistance 04 September | 17:48
Chewie, that last comment of mine was in (self-) response to a link I posted and then asked be deleted. I emailed it to you for more context.
posted by Stewriffic 04 September | 21:49
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