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title: "Yes, Virginia, There Is Comprehensive Sex Ed in Missouri"
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Yes, Virginia, There Is Comprehensive Sex Ed in Missouri

Express Milwaukee • August 29, 2012

> It was important to me to be a part of the Akin Road Trip, as they were calling it, for several reasons. First, I wanted to help raise up the people of Missouri who do not think like Todd Akin. It's not fair for us to stereotype an entire state based on the statements of one politician. In Missouri and every other state of our nation, there are reproductive rights activists fighting to make sure that women and men have control of their own bodies.

  
**Read the full story:** [Yes, Virginia, There Is Comprehensive Sex Ed in Missouri](http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-19708-yes-virginia-there-is-comprehensive-sex-ed-in-missouri.html) by Laura Anne Stuart

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