Honest sex ed

Not surprisingly, it seems that abstinence-only education isn't working - kids are still having sex and now they don't have the information they need to reduce the likelihood of pregnancy or STD. But we've known that for a while.

Connecticut, Rhode Island, Montana, New Jersey, and Wisconsin have already dropped out of this administration's State Abstinence Education Grant program. Yesterday the Kansas Board of Education repealed their ultra-conservative, abstinence-only program in favor of "abstinence plus," in which kids are encouraged to wait until marriage but are also given real, complete information about birth control and STDs. Huh - novel concept.

NARAL North Carolina is making a push for similar ends. A bill for honest, realistic sex ed in our school passed through the House Health Committee last week and is on its way to the education committee. If you also think that our teens have the intellectual capacity to make good decisions if given all the information, tell the education committee to pass HB 879 here.