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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy is it anti-choice people are the same people who don't want to teach sex ed in schools?
I really hate this decision, even though it doesn't effect me in anyway.
no_hypocrisy
(46,061 posts)outside a religious marriage for the sole purpose of procreation.
They know it's a hard sell for the apostates, so the anti-choicers introduce their product in stages:
1) Make abortion hard to obtain
2) Criminalize abortion
3) Make birth control hard to obtain
4) Criminalize birth control
5) Make sex education abstinence only for its curriculum
6) Ban sex education altogether
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)Sex is only for creating children, or (in some beliefs) to strengthen the bonds of marriage. You should only have sex if you are going to fulfill one of those two roles. Teaching Sexual Education in schools gives those students the tools to engage in recreational sex. Abortions and Birth control make it easier for people to enjoy recreational sex. And since recreational sex is bad, they oppose them both.
Bryant
polichick
(37,152 posts)and then it's those sinful women who make them do it.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)They fear doing so give kids the impression that sex is acceptable.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Do some H.S around America do this? Might not be such a bad idea.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)County Sheriffs provided an annual gun safety assembly, and CHP would come out to let us sit in the cars, and they'd demonstrate how far it takes a car to stop after brakes are applied (a color marker on the bumper would indicate the point at which the brakes were applied.
I think we had smoking warning demos in 6th and drug demos in later grades and sex ed in HS.
And yes, a gun safety course should be mandatory and annual, for all ages and I'd like to see it for parents, too.
Not how to shoot but something about all the dangers and what to do if one finds an unsecured gun, ammo, etc.
Provided by local law enforcement, it could also build trust between students and LEOs.
Kablooie
(18,619 posts)It's about removing something that, in their eyes, encourages recreational sex.
The saving lives angle is a smoke screen.
If they have their way they will also criminalize pornography too because masturbation is a sin as well.
It's not enough that they follow their own sexual guidelines, they need to force everyone else in the country to do so too.
That's religious freedom to them. Freedom for one religion to force its views on everyone else and punish anyone who disagrees.
Sound remarkably like certain middle eastern countries, doesn't it?