The Religious Consultation
on Population, Reproductive Health  and Ethics 


 revisiting the world's sacred traditions

April 10, 2005

Action Alert from Debra Haffner

The Bush Administration's latest politicized health education is a new web site for parents on talking to teenagers about sex (a subject you know that is near and dear to me). Good idea, but the web site assumes all parents want their children to wait until marriage to have sex, that all children will grow up to be heterosexual adults who can marry, and includes misleading information about condoms, STDS, pregnancy, abortion, and the effects of premarital sex. It was designed without any input from mainstream health and education organizations but instead relied on an abstinence-only organization. The web site is www.4parents.gov if you want to look at it yourself...

SIECUS is collecting emails to send to the Secretary of HHS (since he does not have a public email address.) They want to deliver thousands of emails to the Secretary asking them to take down the web site until it can be reviewed and revised to include ALL families and ALL teens and medically accurate information.

So, this will only take you a minute...go to http://www.familiesaretalking.org/hhs_letter.htm and fill out this form. Let's let the Secretary know that some of us believe that our teenage and young adult children deserve honest information from their parents!

And PLEASE then take a minute and pass this email on to the parents in your address book who you think would be supportive.

Thanks!

The Reverend Debra W. Haffner
Religious Institute on Sexual Morality, Justice, and Healing
304 Main Avenue, # 335
Norwalk, CT 06851
203-840-1148

www.religiousinstitute.org

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