{"id":237420,"date":"2010-01-27T12:33:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhrealitycheck.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/27\/progress-being-made-wisconsins-healthy-youth-act"},"modified":"2010-01-27T12:56:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:56:30","slug":"progress-being-made-on-wisconsins-healthy-youth-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/237420","title":{"rendered":"Progress Being Made on Wisconsin&#8217;s Healthy Youth Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn the wake of startling numbers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhrealitycheck.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/26\/roundup-teen-pregnancies-rise-heads-still-sand\" >regarding the rise in teenage pregnancies,<\/a> the passage of legislation to help better address sex education is desperately over due.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\nOne such plan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhrealitycheck.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/26\/today-is-day-turn-light-wisconsin-schools\" >Wisconsin&#8217;s Healthy Youth Act<\/a>, is finally moving towards passage in the state legislature.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf passed, the Healthy Youth Act will focus on greater standards in sex ed in public schools, and that programs will be put into place that have proven results for reducing STD rates and teen pregnancies.\u00a0 The Healthy Youth Act, which has the support of numberous local public health groups and had been passed unanimously by the state assembly, has now made it past the senate Committee on Education and can be put up on the Senate floor for a vote.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ppawi.org\/\" >Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin<\/a> released the following statement:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\t<span><span>\u201cWe are<br \/>\n\tsincerely grateful for Senate Education Committee members\u2019 recognition<br \/>\n\tthat the state is facing a public health crisis with skyrocketing rates<br \/>\n\tof teen sexually transmitted diseases and an end to the decline in teen<br \/>\n\tbirth rates,\u201d said Chris Taylor, Public Policy Director for PPAWI.<br \/>\n\t\u201cNot only is this crisis costing teens in terms of their education and<br \/>\n\tjob opportunities, but studies estimate that it costs Wisconsin<br \/>\n\ttaxpayers approximately $273 million a year to cover teen child bearing<br \/>\n\tand STD treatment. \u00a0Now, we need Senate leadership to act on the bill<br \/>\n\tand schedule a floor vote as soon as possible.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of startling numbers regarding the rise in teenage pregnancies, the passage of legislation to help better address sex education is desperately over due.\u00a0 One such plan, Wisconsin&#8217;s Healthy Youth Act, is finally moving towards passage in the state legislature. If passed, the Healthy Youth Act will focus on greater standards in sex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}