[johnb838]

This is sponsored by Planned Parenthood??? Wait a sec till my mind stops boggling. OK, that's better. I don't believe it.

[madprof98]

Program manager for Planned Parenthood of Southern Nevada, Laura Deitsch, didn't want to comment specifically on the nature of the "good girl cards" but said it's important to emphasize that teenage boys and girls alike need to be taught abstinence and comprehensive sex education. She said the onus is not only on young women to take responsibility for their actions.

"We encourage all teens to take responsibility, and we give them the tools to do that," Deitsch said.

Scuderi said her organization promotes abstinence equally for girls and boys.

Bad, bad, bad writing here. The Planned Parenthood comment is supposed to provide an alternative to the abstinence-only approach. The "tools" supplied by PP (condoms, abortions) are supposed to offer kids the chance to have sex with "responsibility." The reference to "her organization" right after that is not to PP at all but to the pro-abstinence group which sponsored the convention.