Wisconsin Ponders Replacing Abstinence-Only Program

Article about our state legislators attempts to alter education of our youth

By Kathleen Gilbert

MADISON, Wisconsin, October 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A law set for consideration in the Wisconsin state legislature aims to replace the abstinence-only curriculum used in the state’s public schools with one that educates students on the use of condoms and contraceptives.

The Healthy Youth Act (AB-458 and SB-324), introduced by Democrat state Rep. Tamara Grigsby and Sen. Lena Taylor last month, aims to establish a contraceptive-promoting state curriculum for all schools that have a Human Growth and Development Program.  The curriculum is billed as giving “age-appropriate, medically accurate information” on how to prevent unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease.

Under current Wisconsin law, public school sex ed classes are abstinence-based.  The new law would most immediately affect the approximately six in ten public schools currently using a sex education program, according to the Pierce County Herald.

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