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Illinois Legislature Bans Abstinence-Only Sex Education

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UPDATED: Monday, May 27, 2013 03:53
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Sunday, May 26, 2013 7:44 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


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In a 37 to 21 vote last Wednesday, the Illinois State Senate concurred with the state house and decided to ban abstinence-only education in the Prairie State.

Under HB 2675, schools won’t be able to choose the abstinence-only option anymore — they’ll need to either offer comprehensive information about prevention methods, or decide not to offer any sex ed courses whatsoever.

This bill by Illinois follows what many medical organizations in the United States advocate for. Wikipedia lists these organizations as opponents of abstinence-only education:
•The American Psychological Association
•The American Medical Association
•The National Association of School Psychologists
•The American Academy of Pediatrics
•The American Public Health Association
•The Society for Adolescent Medicine
•The American College Health Association

The bill was sponsored in the house by Representative Camille Y. Lilly (D) with 20 co-sponsors and is expected to be signed by Illinois Governor Pat Quinn (D) when it arrives in his office. The bill follows a similar choice by the U.S. Congress in 2010 which eliminated $114.5 billion from federal abstinence-only education and redirected the funds to “effective, evidence-based, teen pregnancy prevention programs and promising prevention models.”

This move by Illinois represents a huge step in the right direction when it comes to the health of America’s adolescents and young adults. As science has repeatedly demonstrated, abstinence-only “sexual education” is responsible for higher rates of STDs, STIs and pregnancy among teens. It doesn’t work. That type of thinking is only true in fantasy land. http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/26/sex-ed-illinois/#ixzz2UQBYCPQQ


Sanity reigns. Of course, it means some schools will opt for NO sex ed, and the kids will suffer predictably.

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Sunday, May 26, 2013 9:32 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


No, the school boards won't scream, dear. They'll go right on happily doing what they do; kids will get pregnant and there will be disease, and both will increase the poverty in those areas. And nobody will care, because of course poor people WANT to be poor; girls who get pregnant are whores and SHOULD be forced to bear the children, who will be poor, which of course is THEIR fault, and on and on and around and around it will go. None of that will bother the "christians" on the school board in the slightest.

America, the "great".

(I love it; my computer automatically capitalizes "christians" and I have to go back and fix it, because I refuse to capitalize what these people call themselves...)


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Sunday, May 26, 2013 8:38 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Oh dear. Sorry to get in the middle of the conversation, but - is there anything we can do Brenda?

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Monday, May 27, 2013 3:53 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I don't believe it would happen up there with anything like the acquiescence it IS happening down here. In some ways, it seems to me, we've become so immured to the religious insanity down here we just let it pass, despite the harm it does to our children. When you're inundated with it so much, people just take too much of it for granted; especially when it's those in POWER who are pushing it or allowing it to happen every day...

It's becoming a pretty horrific situation in my country.


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