Bye Bye, Abstinence Only, Part 2 — So What Do We Do About It?
Just want to clarify that Congress now works over the president’s budget, so the end of abstinence only isn’t necessarily nigh absent some activism on our part. To show your support for ending federal expenditures on an education methodology that has been shown to be ineffective at best and dangerous to the health of young people at worst–and to show your support for medically accurate and comprehensive programs–you can click here. Advocates for Youth will provide an easy way to communicate your thoughts to your members of Congress.

GLORIA FELDT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a sought-after speaker and frequent contributor to major news outlets, and the Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. People has called her “the voice of experience,” and among the many honors she has been given, Vanity Fair called her one of America’s “Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, and Trailblazers,” and Glamour chose her as a “Woman of the Year.”
As co-founder and president of Take The Lead, a leading women’s leadership nonprofit, her mission is to achieve gender parity by 2025 through innovative training programs, workshops, a groundbreaking 50 Women Can Change The World immersive, online courses, a free weekly newsletter, and events including a monthly Virtual Happy Hour program and a Take The Lead Day symposium that reached over 400,000 women globally in 2017.