An article written by Susan M. Reverby, a professor of women’s studies at Wellesley College, has uncovered details on a study conducted between 1946 and 1948 in Guatemala, which involved experiments on Guatemalans. Essentially, the Public Health Service (PHS) inoculated people with syphilis.

In Helena, Montana, educators are trying to implement comprehensive sex education. But the curriculum has spurred furious right-wing opposition, and false claims about the content.

Written by Elizabeth Toledo for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

The CDC has found that the share of teenage girls who use the rhythm method as birth control (at least some of the time) jumped from 11 percent in 2002 to 17 percent in 2008.

Written by Amanda Marcotte for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

California’s policies have undeniably made a positive impact on sex education in the state. But, unfortunately, sex education advocates can’t dust off our hands and move on. Many California public schools are still providing abstinence-only-until marriage programs, in spite of policies that forbid them.

Written by Phyllida Burlingame for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

By the end of March, 825 measures had been introduced in the 44 legislatures that have convened so far in 2010.

Written by Rachel Gold and Elizabeth Nash for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

During the intense healthcare reform debate President Obama occasionally mentioned HIV infections and AIDS-related illnesses as among those pre-existing conditions that could no longer be used by health insurance companies to automatically exclude consumers from health insurance coverage. Yet the broader scope and crisis of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in America failed to garner much attention.

Written by Karen Ocamb for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Last summer, the $50 million-a-year federal Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage grant program died a quiet death, only to come back to life, zombie-like, in the healthcare reform bill.

Written by Jen Heitel Yakush for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

Why is there a $250 million “bonus” for failed abstinence-only programs kept in the health reform bill?  Was this a chit to be traded for the votes of Democrats like Stupak?

Written by James Wagoner for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

In his proposed Fiscal Year 2011 budget, President Obama increases funding for teen pregnancy prevention and international reproductive health, but neglects abortion rights.

Written by Susan Cohen for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

A conservative Utah State Senator discusses his efforts to make sex ed in his state better, though admittedly not comprehensive as it still omits discussion of sexual identity and diversity.

Written by Senator Steve Urquhart for RH Reality Check – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.