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Sex Ed in Downingtown

Sex Ed in Downingtown

Ok, so a parent or two in a local school district demand that it stop teaching abstinence only sex education, and require teaching of "comprehensive" sex ed. They claim that teaching young people that abstinence is the best way to avoid sexually transmitted...

Why would PA lawmakers want to mandate failed sex-ed here?

Why would PA lawmakers want to mandate failed sex-ed here?

From Dr. New: "Starting in 1999, the British government launched its Teenage Pregnancy Strategy program whose goal was to cut the number of teen pregnancies in half by promoting comprehensive sexual education and birth control. Since 1999, some £300 million ($454 million in U.S. dollars) was spent on this initiative

Unfortunately, the British teen-abortion rate, has climbed steadily since then. In fact, in 2009, the London Daily Mail reported that teen-pregnancy rates in England are now higher than they were in 1995 and pregnancies among girls under 16, below the age of sexual consent, are also at the highest level since 1998."