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barred from demonstrating: Mississippi Legislature, 2023 Regular Session, House Bill 1390, Section 37-13-171, billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2023/html/HB/1300-1399/HB1390IN.htm.
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“homosexual conduct”: Bills have been introduced to remove the requirement that Texas sex education curricula include that “homosexual conduct is not an acceptable lifestyle and is a criminal offense,” but they have failed. Technically, the ban isn’t enforceable because of a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared state laws criminalizing homosexual behavior to be unconstitutional. But the Texas ban remains in the state’s penal code. Texas Health and Safety Code Sec. 85.007, “Educational Materials for Minors,” statutes.capitol.texas.gov/docs/HS/htm/HS.85.htm.
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In Tennessee: “Tennessee State Profile,” SIECUS, accessed January 25, 2023, siecus.org/state_profile/tennessee-state-profile.
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“Kissing and hugging”: Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, Comedy Central, April 18, 2012, cc.com/video/er0kn7/the-colbert-report-the-word-gateway-hug.
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Only ten states: Guttmacher Institute, “Sex and HIV Education.”
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instruction that discriminates against: SIECUS, “The SIECUS State Profiles 2022.”
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people ages fifteen to twenty-four: NCHHSTP, “Incidence, Prevalence, and Cost of Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States,” last modified March 16, 2022, cdc.gov/nchhstp/newsroom/fact-sheets/std/STI-Incidence-Prevalence-Cost-Factsheet.html [inactive].
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one in five people: NCHHSTP, “Incidence, Prevalence, and Cost of Sexually Transmitted Infections in the United States.”
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“There still seems to be”: Jenna Wortham, “We’re More Honest with Our Phones than with Our Doctors,” New York Times Magazine, March 23, 2016, nytimes.com/2016/03/27/magazine/were-more-honest-with-our-phones-than-with-our-doctors.html.
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religious underpinnings: Planned Parenthood Federation of America, “History of Sex Education in the U.S.,” 2016, cdn.plannedparenthood.org/uploads/filer_public/da/67/da67fd5d-631d-438a-85e8-a446d90fd1e3/20170209_sexed_d04_1.pdf [inactive].
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difficult to pass legislation: Rachel Janfaza, “The Nuanced Push for American Sex Education,” Harvard Political Review, January 24, 2020, harvardpolitics.com/american-sex-education/.
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knew that the ovaries: Department of Health and Human Services, “Fertility Knowledge Survey, 2020: Findings Report,” 2020, opa.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/2021-01/fertility-knowledge-survey-findings-exec-summary-2020.pdf.
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“may have grave implications”: Department of Health and Human Services, “Fertility Knowledge Survey, 2020.”
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Other research focused on fertility awareness: Juliana Pedro, Tânia Brandão, Lone Schmidt, Maria E. Costa, and Mariana V. Martins, “Families Formed through Assisted Reproductive Technology: Causes, Experiences, and Consequences in an International Context,” Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences 123, no. 2 (2018): 71-81, doi.org/10.1080/03009734.2018.1480186.
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“If you have never”: Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography (New York: Anchor, 2000), 4–5.
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three and five hundred thousand oocytes: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and American Society for Reproductive Medicine, “Committee Opinion No. 589: Female Age-Related Fertility Decline,” Fertility and Sterility 101, no. 3 (2014; reaffirmed 2022): 633–634, doi.org/10.1016/j.fertnstert.2013.12.032.
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“The eggs do not”: Angier, Woman, 3.
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the ovary is the first organ: Jiachen Wu, Yang Liu, Yinhua Song, Lingjuan Wang, Jihui Ai, and Kezhen Li, “Aging Conundrum: A Perspective for Ovarian Aging,” Frontiers in Endocrinology 13 (2022), doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2022.952471.
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While it’s a biological reality: Emily Witt, “The Future of Fertility,” New Yorker, April 17, 2023, newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/the-future-of-fertility.
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“There’s no one age”: Christina Caron, “Raising Concerns About a Widely Used Test to Measure Fertility,” New York Times, October 16, 2017, nytimes.com/2017/10/16/health/fertility-test-ovarian-reserve.html.
