8 states restricted sex ed last year. More could join amid growing parents' rights activism

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

◾ Idaho already had an abstinence-only policy, but last year it expanded the definition of sexual activities kids ought to abstain from to any intimate physical contact between individuals that could result in pregnancy, cause them to contract sexually transmitted diseases and infections, or present emotional risks. It also limits sex education content to studying the anatomy and physiology of human reproduction, which means, according to the Sexuality Information and Education Council, it effectively excludes non-heterosexual and nonmarital relationships whose end goal isn't reproduction.

◾ Indiana now prohibits sex education in kindergarten through third grade in a law that also, according to the council, includes a clause that pressures school employees to “out” trans students.

◾ Iowa passed a bill that prohibits teaching children in sixth grade and lower about sexual orientation or gender identity. Lawmakers also got rid of a policy requiring instruction about AIDS and human papillomavirus, or HPV. The new law also restricts access to “sexually explicit” books in libraries.

◾ Kentucky enacted a law that bans sex education for students in kindergarten through fifth grade and prohibits the board of education from approving policies that would require teachers to use students’ desired pronouns.

◾ Mississippi formerly had a policy requiring abstinence-only education that was set to expire. Last year, it passed a provision deleting the expiration date, which the council said means the abstinence-only is now codified in law.

◾ North Dakota added a sex education requirement mandating that schools show an ultrasound video and an animation depicting a human’s development from fertilization to birth. The council says this policy “seeks to stigmatize abortion and other pregnancy outcomes.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/8-states-restricted-sex-ed-last-year-more-could-join-amid-growing-parents-rights-activism/ar-BB1imX5V

[no_hypocrisy]

1. How antediluvian.

The football coach was our sex ed teacher for six weeks in 1974. Co-ed classes too.

His opening statement: I know more than half of you are already doing it and don't lie to me or to yourselves. My job is to make sure you don't have babies or catch a venereal disease when you do it.

Still consider him to be my favorite teacher.

BTW, he required us to bring in "current event" articles about sex. (Mine was the first time a husband was tried and convicted of raping his wife.) And he gave very difficult and demanding tests. You had to know the five most effective forms of birth control and their failure rate.

Fifty years ago !

[Lonestarblue]

2. These states prefer teenage girls getting pregnant and dropping out of school.

Girls and women are nothing more than baby machines to them. Plus they don’t want women competing for jobs. They want them under the patriarchal thumb of a husband or religious cult leader.

[hildegaard28]

3. What about

The rights of parents who want their children to have a thorough sex education? Do they have any say in the matter?

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

6. nope. Only say is to vote blue in red states

[Hekate]

4. Alito should be very happy indeed that there will now be a supply of adoptable white babies

Anyone in doubt should go back and read Dobbs. He found it distressing that the supply of adoptable babies (white ones implied but not stated) had dried up due to wicked high school girls using contraceptives and getting abortions.

[Johonny]

5. Sex ed decreases need for abortions

The GOPers hatred of sex Ed proves they're just anti women and don't actually care about abortion