New York Senate 'Missed Mark' Not Passing Comprehensive Sex Education Bill, Opinion Piece Says

 04.07.2008 13:13   medicalnewstoday.com

The New York state Senate "clearly missed the mark" by not passing the Healthy Teens Act, which would make funding available for schools to provide comprehensive sex education, Claudia Gryvatz Copquin, author of "The Neighborhoods of Queens," writes in a Long Island Newsday opinion piece.

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