In a Post-Roe world, teenagers need better lessons about things such as contraceptives, reproduction, and what to do if they get pregnant, she said.
Minna Most woke up one morning in June and scrolled through TikTok on her phone. As she searched, the 17-year-old discovered that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade, ending protections for abortion that had been in place for decades.
Each state decides what to teach K-12 students — including if anything at all — in sex education classes. Often it is taught “too little, too late,” said Eva Goldfarb, a professor of public health at Montclair State University in New Jersey who studies sex education. Colorado does not require schools to teach sex education, but if it is taught, then under state statute, schools must teach about all pregnancy options, including abortion. Lessons also have to be medically accurate, teach about consent, and cannot exclude the health needs of lesbians, gay, bisexual or transgender people.But, she said, “If schools don’t want to teach it the way Colorado wants them to, then they don’t have to at all.
“It was weird they couldn’t even say the word,” she said. “It made it feel taboo like they weren’t comfortable discussing .” Most said she’s learned there are limitations to the survey’s findings since taking AP Statistics this semester. First, it was a volunteer survey and wasn’t offered to everyone in her school or district.“Ideally, I’d like a reassessment of the curriculum,” Most said.What is comprehensive sex education?
Comprehensive sex education occurs when lessons are medically accurate and age and culturally appropriate and teaches more than pregnancy and disease prevention, Goldfarb said.
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