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“It is essential that the women’s preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what the health plan they have or where they work - as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense.” (Gwen Moore) School is a place of education for subjects not taught at home, therefore birth control in the school curriculum could open up new doors for some kids who choose to be sexually active. Even though abstinence is the only way to be 100% sure you’re protected against pregnancy, birth control should be taught about in school so kids know at a young age that abstinence isn’t the only option because birth control is a safe way lower your risk of unwanted pregnancy and while doing so, is 99% effective.
Being that abstinence is the refraining of sexual intercourse until you’re married, it is the only 100% sure way to protect against unwanted pregnancy. Many households teach their kin, for personal and religious reasons, that abstinence is the only way. Outside of abstinence those kids don’t know about other forms of contraception. Many people on the board of education believe, “This isn’t what school is for. It should be for learning.” (William J. Bennett), “...it makes teens mindful of it {sex} and suggests that you are behind the times.” Learning about contraception will help the kids who do not believe in abstinence and who are sexually active, prevent pregnancy. Some people who do choose to be sexually active but misuse different forms of contraceptives wide up with unwanted pregnancies, and if they had abstained from sex it wouldn’t have happened. Yes, abstinence is the only 100% way to be sure you're not having an unwanted pregnancy because you're not eng...
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"DANGEROUS IDEOLOGY ; SEX EDUCATION PROGRAMS SHOULD INCLUDE FACTS ON CONDOMS AS WELL AS ABSTINENCE." Buffalo News: 0. Dec 27 2004. ProQuest. Web. 21 Mar. 2014 .
Gillett, Michelle. "Abstinence-Only is Only a Failure." The Berkshire EagleMay 17 2010. ProQuest. Web. 21 Mar. 2014 .
Tim Craig - Washington Post,Staff Writer. "Kaine Cuts Abstinence-Only Program Funds; __." The Washington Post: 0. Nov 13 2007. ProQuest. Web. 21 Mar. 2014 .
... Deutch has even stated that “abstinence is the important message to start, but it’s not simply enough to hope that’s the only message that’s necessary” (Support SIECUS).
Fram, Alan. “Most in AP poll favor public schools providing birth control, though qualms remain” Goerie.com. Online. 13 Dec. 209
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It has been almost thirty three years since the first federal funding was put to use in “. . . sex education programs that promote abstinence-only-until-marriage to the exclusion of all other approaches . . .” according to the article “Sex education” (2010) published by “Opposing Viewpoints in Context;” a website that specializes in covering social issues. Since then a muddy controversy has arisen over whether that is the best approach. On one hand is the traditional approach of abstinence (not having sex before marriage), and on the other is the idea that what is being done is not enough, and that there needs to be a more comprehensive approach. This entails not only warning against sex, but also teaching teens about how to have “Safe Sex” (“Sex Education,” 2010).
Students should be informed about more than just “don’t have sex” because eventually it is going to happen and they need to be educated on the proper way to handle the situations. Because students are mostly taught abstinence it has created the situation to where researchers find” Abstinence-only education, instead of reducing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, has made teenagers and young adults more vulnerable to ST...
Collins, Chris, Priya Alagiri, and Todd Summers. "Abstinence Only vs. Comprehensive Sex Education: What Are the Arguments? What Is the Evidence?" AIDS Research Institute. University of California, San Francisco, Mar. 2002. Web. 19 Feb. 2011. .
Smith, Morgan. "More Schools Choose to Teach Abstinence-Plus." The New York Times 16 Sept. 2011, National ed.: A21A. The New York Times. 15 Sept. 2011. Web. 10 Oct. 2011.
How many girls have you see around school who are pregnant? Do you ever come to think that they may not have had the “sex talk” with their parents or any sort of sex education at school? “The United Stated still has the highest teen pregnancy rate of any industrialized country. About 40 percent of American women become pregnant before the age of 20. The result is about 1 million pregnancies each year among women ages 15 to 19.” (The Annie E. Casey Foundation) At the age 15-20 most teen males and females don’t have a stable job and are still going to school. There is much at risk when a male and female decide to have sexual intercourse. Having a sex education class would help decrease the teen pregnancy rate. Learning what one can do to prevent a teen pregnancy and the consequences that can lead up to it, will help reduce the amount of sexual activity among teens. Having a sex education class that is required will benefit the upcoming teens of the next generation. Some parents don’t want their teens to have premarital sex and some parents don’t want the schools to be the ones responsible to teach their kids about sex education because they feel like it’s their job. There has been much controversy on sex education being taught at school.
Kirby, Douglas. "Abstinence, Sex, And STD/HIV Education Programs For Teens: Their Impact On Sexual Behavior, Pregnancy, And Sexually Transmitted Disease." Annual Review Of Sex Research 18 (2007): 143-177. OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson). Web. 1 Apr. 2013.
Santelli, J., Ott, A., Lyon, M., Rogers, J., Summers, D., &Schelifer, R. (2006). Abstinence and abstinence-only education: A review of U.S. policies and programs. Journal of Adolescent Health 38 p.p.72-81.
The government likes to pretend that if high school students get taught the “abstinence-only” method they would never think of taking part in sexual activities. Statistically this is incorrect. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, “56 percent of high school students are virgins”(Martin). For the 56 percent abstinence only is doing them well, but there are still 44 percent of high school students engaging in sex without knowing the precau...
Michaels, Samantha. "Clarification: Abstinence-only Programs Might Work—for Some." Medill Reports. 3 Feb. 2010. Web. 6 Mar. 2015. .
National Abstinence Education Association. “Comprehensive Sex Education Is Inappropriate And Harmful.” Do Abstinence Programs Work?. Christina Fisanick. Michigan. Greenhaven Press, 2010. 33-42. Print.
“Forty-one percent of teens ages 18-19 said they know nothing about condoms, and seventy-five percent said they know nothing about the contraceptive pill” (Facts on American Teens). Even if schools taught just abstinence it still would not be enough. “In 2007, a study showed that abstinence only programs have no beneficial impact on the sexual behavior of young people” (Facts on American Teens). Sex education is not taken as seriously as it should be in schools, it is treated like it is not a big deal. Schools should require a sex education class that specifically teaches students about sex and goes into depth of all the possible consequences because of the high pregnancy, abortion, and virus rates.
Sex education in our schools has been a hot topic of debate for decades. The main point in question has been whether to utilize comprehensive sex education or abstinence-only curriculum to educate our youth. The popularity of abstinence-only curriculum over the last couple of decades has grown largely due to the United States government passing a law to give funding to states that teach the abstinence-only approach to sex education. But not teaching our children about sex and sexuality is not giving them the information they need to make well educated decisions. Sex education in our schools should teach more than just abstinence-only because these programs are not proven to prevent teens from having sex. Children need to be educated on how to prevent contracting sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies and be given the knowledge to understand the changes to their bodies during puberty. According to the Guidelines for Comprehensive Sexuality Education: Kindergarten-12th Grade from the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), comprehensive sex education “should be appropriate to age, developmental level, and cultural background of students and respect the diversity of values and beliefs represented in the community” (SIECUS).