The bill forbids advocating for “the use of contraceptive methods or devices,” sex outside marriage or homosexuality. It also restricts teaching about sexual intercourse or erotic behavior.
Public and charter schools would have the option of developing an abstinence-only curriculum or skipping the discussion of sexuality altogether.
“We’ve been culturally watered down to think we have to teach about sex, about having sex and how to get away with it, which is intellectually dishonest,” Wright said in defense of the bill. “Why don’t we just be honest with them upfront that sex outside marriage is devastating?”Who, pray tell, is having sex and "getting away with it"? Am I off base to presume that male persons, who don't get pregnant, have about a 100% "getting away with it" rate, and the real problem is that female people just aren't getting knocked up like the trollops they are since they are using protection? Which just goes to show that people who are for abstinence know abstinence isn't going to happen, and they mostly just want to punish women for having functioning libidos--and that they pretty much know that contraception works (or else--where is the "getting away with it" factor coming in, hmm?), they just don't think women of any age should have the information for it or access to it.
Sex outside of marriage isn't devastating. Unprotected, uninformed, desperate sex following dumb urban myths about contraception with outmoded attitudes about sin and shame, might be, but luckily, we don't have to live that way. And I am of late far less patient with this outlook than I have ever been before. These sex-loony mostly-religious right nonsense-pushers don't care if their misinformation leads to death. They aren't pro-life, they are just anti-sex and anti-woman.
All the stories like this of late have me simply shaking mad.
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