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In Texas teaching sex education is strongly discouraged while teaching abstinence only education in public schools is mandatory. Some in the Republican party w

In Texas teaching sex education is strongly discouraged while teaching abstinence only education in public schools is mandatory. Some in the Republican party want states to be able to ban birth control as well. [1] [1] https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/nancy-kaffer/2022/02/21/michigan-gop-birth-control-griswold-abortion-dobbs/6879282001/ https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/nancy-kaffer/... EDIT: Link to PDF about sex education in Texas https://tfn.org/cms/assets/uploads/2015/11/Report_final_web.pdf https://tfn.org/cms/assets/uploads/2015/11/Report_final_web....

ChuckNorris89 5y ago
>In Texas teaching sex education is strongly discouraged while teaching abstinence only education in public schools is mandatory. Holy shit, that's even more backwards than my poor backwater Eastern European country where the Orthodox church still has big influence. Teaching sex-ed to kids and giving them free condoms is becoming the norm. How is this possible in such a wealthy, educated and developed country? No alcohol before 21, no sex before 18, etc., American kids must be going nuts over there.
- sofixa 5y ago
  They forget religion has no place in public life, least of all education.
  - JaimeThompson 5y ago
    This is interesting too https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2017/04/18/texas-battle-over-teaching-evolution-comes-down-to-one-word-evaluate/ https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2017/04/18/texas-b...
- quantified 5y ago
  Yes, the “I’m moral and will prevent your mistakes” crowd somehow is more determined to win. Teenagers subverting the grownups is part of the national culture.
tzs 5y ago
Rick Perry, governor of Texas from 2000 to 2015 and then Trump's Secretary of Energy, tried in early 2007 to add vaccination against some strains of HPV that cause cervical cancer to the list of required vaccinations for children to attend public school in Texas (with exceptions easily available for parents who object on the grounds of religion or conscience), and make it free of charge to anyone not covered by insurance. This was unpopular enough with the rest of his party that he had to give up on it. One of the main objections was that since HPV is sexually transmitted protecting against it would encourage kids to have sex. That is of course a ridiculous objection. You'd be hard pressed to find an actual horny teen couple for whom the risk that sex would lead to cervical cancer 30 years later would be something they would consider when deciding how far to go.

ChuckNorris89 5y ago

>In Texas teaching sex education is strongly discouraged while teaching abstinence only education in public schools is mandatory. Holy shit, that's even more backwards than my poor backwater Eastern European country where the Orthodox church still has big influence. Teaching sex-ed to kids and giving them free condoms is becoming the norm. How is this possible in such a wealthy, educated and developed country? No alcohol before 21, no sex before 18, etc., American kids must be going nuts over there.

sofixa 5y ago
They forget religion has no place in public life, least of all education.
- JaimeThompson 5y ago
  This is interesting too https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2017/04/18/texas-battle-over-teaching-evolution-comes-down-to-one-word-evaluate/ https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2017/04/18/texas-b...
quantified 5y ago
Yes, the “I’m moral and will prevent your mistakes” crowd somehow is more determined to win. Teenagers subverting the grownups is part of the national culture.

tzs 5y ago

Rick Perry, governor of Texas from 2000 to 2015 and then Trump's Secretary of Energy, tried in early 2007 to add vaccination against some strains of HPV that cause cervical cancer to the list of required vaccinations for children to attend public school in Texas (with exceptions easily available for parents who object on the grounds of religion or conscience), and make it free of charge to anyone not covered by insurance. This was unpopular enough with the rest of his party that he had to give up on it. One of the main objections was that since HPV is sexually transmitted protecting against it would encourage kids to have sex. That is of course a ridiculous objection. You'd be hard pressed to find an actual horny teen couple for whom the risk that sex would lead to cervical cancer 30 years later would be something they would consider when deciding how far to go.