Genesee County Health Department to use text messages to send sex information to teens

Sex information text messages could soon be popping up on local teens' cellphones, thanks to a Ruth Mott Foundation grant to the Genesee County Health Department and Genesee County Healthy Sexuality Coalition. The new system will allow teens to text questions about sex and get computerized messages back with answers and resources for more information and help. "Kids will make their own decisions. If they want to be sexually active and use birth control, there are ways they can go about getting that like going to the health department. But to just put it out there that easily for them, I'm afraid will teach them sex has no consequences," said Kelly Reeder, a spokeswoman for Flint Crisis Pregnancy Services. MLive