11 states to ban abortion don’t require sex ed

• Many states with abortion restrictions emphasize abstinence as the principle or solely strategy to keep away from getting pregnant.
• “Only a few younger individuals within the U.S. get excellent intercourse training,” stated Leslie Kantor, a professor and intercourse training knowledgeable.
• Some research have discovered abstinence-only training has little impression on teen being pregnant charges.

Near half of the roughly two dozen states the place abortion is or will quickly be outlawed or closely restricted do not require sex education. 

Most of these states require any colleges that do select to show intercourse training to emphasize abstinence as the principle or solely strategy to keep away from getting pregnant. Virtually none require instructing about contraception.