[HarryCaul]

Turns out Alaska is NUMBER ONE in providing access and information about contraception according to the study. So much for the next line of attack, eh?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Um...the Lefties in the MSM are never going to use the CSM as a resource! They’re afraid to look at it, lest they go blind, LOL!

(Good point, though.) :)

[rabscuttle385]

The date on the article was March 1, 2006. The day that Sarah Palin assumed the office of Governor of Alaska was December 4, 2006.

She's pretty rockin' awesome, but unless you can find a newer source than this CSM article, go fish.

[gracesdad]

“Embedded in the Guttmacher ratings is a rejection of the “abstinence only” approach to sex education in schools and a preference for “comprehensive sex ed,” which incorporates the abstinence message but also informs students about how they can protect themselves through contraception. California, for example, is one of the few states in the country to reject federal abstinence-only education funds, which boosts its Guttmacher score.”

OH NO, can’t be true. I thought abstinence-only was the ONLY thing that could work.

[nmh]

Excerpt:

...

“Alaska, Alabama, and South Carolina scored very high, even though we think of them as having an anti-abortion environment,” says Ms. Dailard. “But they’ve really stepped up to the plate in terms of making family-planning services available, particularly to low-income women.”

All 50 states and the District of Columbia were rated on three criteria: service availability, laws and policies, and public funding.

In Alaska, for example, 85 percent of counties have at least one family planning clinic. The state also devotes major funding, both from its own budget and from federal block grant dollars, to family planning.

...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0301/p02s02-ussc.html

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Guttmacher Institute=Research Arm of Planned Parenthood