New Study Supports Comprehensive Sex Ed
by David Safier
Awhile back I wrote about Napolitano turning down abstinence-only sex ed money from the feds. A few days ago, a commenter asked which other states had turned down the money. I couldn't find an answer, until today, when I read about a new study that concluded students who had abstinence-only education were at greater risk than those who were in a more comprehensive sex education program.
The answer is, 17 states have turned down the money: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
About the new study:
Adolescents receiving comprehensive sex education had a substantially lower risk of teenage pregnancy than students who received either abstinence-only education or no education at all, according to a new, groundbreaking study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.
Not to mention STDs! I'm old enough to have grown up with abstinence only as a young woman's only legal choice. We fought hard for women's rights and are now hoping to help and ready to support today's young women when they are finally ready to make sure they don't lose them.
Posted by: karen | March 26, 2008 at 09:11 PM