Sex Education

At a Community Health Centers of Arkansas summit on health care last week, former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders said that insufficient sex education in schools makes children vulnerable to sexual assault and sexually transmitted diseases. She also blasted abstinence-only programs, according to the Arkansas News Service.

“We walk around and our government says, ‘Oh, Dr. Elders, [...]

After a year of blows to abstinence-only education – including here in Colorado – the U.S. House plans to debate federal funding for the programs today as part of the Health and Human Services budget. Colorado lawmakers joined Iowa and Washington this year in passing legislation requiring sex education programs to include “science-based” information, which [...]

After the Senate passed House Bill 1292 this morning, Colorado schools that teach sex education will likely soon be required to “at least mention” contraception, but they are free to continue to emphasize abstinence.

Is this a radical move that will result in Colorado’s children acting like those Louisiana fifth-graders last week? Hardly. But you wouldn’t [...]

Conservative religious group Colorado Family Action is lining up its members against House Bill 1300 in what it says is a fight for parental control over the “training of proper sexual behavior” in children. But the group either doesn’t understand what HB 1300 really does – or doesn’t care.

CFA has been making its case against [...]