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South Carolina’s sex education is horribly outdated, and we all know it. I’ll admit I’m not from South Carolina. I spent middle and high school in Denver, Colorado, and, so I received a pretty decent sex education from the school system. The currciculum promoted abstinence, but it also covered contraception and condoms, and it covered STD’s. At the time, I didn’t think this was very revolutionary as far as sex education went. Then, I came to USC for my undergrad, and I found myself in a women’s health class. …
There are so many rumors and theories about Plan B and other emergency contraception that it can become very difficult to differentiate fact from fiction, and unfortunately, many people believe the falsified rumors over what EC actually does. Emergency contraception is NOT an abortion pill and it will NOT terminate a pregnancy if you are already pregnant. Emergency contraception just prevents you from becoming pregnant just like any other birth control. In fact, EC is just a higher dosage of the pill you take every day.
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It was Women’s History Month in March, and I interviewed the lovely ladies at FMLA at USC- Columbia about their favorite women in history! Enjoy!
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The verdict is in! In the Steubenville rape trial of Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond, both were found guilty on counts of rape. Trent Mays was also found guilty of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material. Mays will have to serve a minimum of 2 years and Richmond a minimum of 1 year, and both may have to stay in juvenile detention until they are 21. It seemed a promising verdict that, for once and so rarely, a victim found justice in our legal system.
Unfortunately, however, many …
As some of you may have heard, yesterday, Arkansas passed what is widely considered to be the most severe abortion ban that has been seen thus far. In Arkansas, a woman can no longer seek an abortion after a physician is able to detect the fetus’ heartbeat…at just 12 weeks! It has been reported that the ACLU will fight this ban as unconstitutional, but it remains disturbing nonetheless. Arkansas lawmakers apparently have no idea of the complexities and nuances behind a woman making this decision and seem only to …
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