States Inch Towards Comprehensive Sex Ed
(Via RH Reality Check)
In states across the country this spring, the mounting evidence condemning abstinence-only programming — studies that reveal it is ineffective and half of states rejecting federal funding for it — is having an effect on legislatures. Some states are introducing bills that would compel schools to teach comprehensive sex education, and many are stipulating that curricula be “medically accurate.” While some of the states are the usual blue state suspects, including Hawaii, New York, Minnesota, and Oregon, others are more surprising: the Indiana, Texas, North Carolina, Florida, and Utah legislatures have all introduced bills that are taking a big step toward teaching comprehensive, medically accurate sex education in schools. About 19 states total have introduced such legislation.
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