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by Karina
Web Editor
Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota Action Fund

Emily, our blogger from ND, has written an interesting post about the Candie's Foundation, an organization aimed at reducing teen pregnancy, which had some pretty prominent advertising on Perez Hilton's site several days ago.
In her blog post, Emily points out a few of the inconsistencies with some of the messaging of the campaign:

Some things gave me hope. For instance their 'Frequently Asked Questions' page read:

Unplanned pregnancy is at the root of a number of important public health and social challenges ....... Another major consequence of high rates of unplanned pregnancy is, of course, high levels of abortion. Although there are many deeply felt and strongly held opinions nationwide about the proper place of abortion in American life, all would prefer that fewer women be faced with difficult decisions brought on by unplanned pregnancy.

Cool, I can get behind that. I want less women backed into the tough decision of abortion/adoption/keeping an unplanned pregnancy.

But other things are not sitting so right with me. Take for example the site's tagline: "Vow Not Now" --- have we learned NOTHING from no-good abstinence-only programs?? Those virginity pledges weren't so effective.

You can read more about this from Emily here.

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