Sex Education

The Secular Coalition for America supports medically accurate, comprehensive sex education. We oppose policies which subject students to incomplete, inaccurate, or religiously biased information focusing solely on abstinence as a means for safe sex and pregnancy prevention. These programs have been proven both harmful and ineffective.

Religious control of sex education harms children

Position Paper

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Eliminate Religious Control of Sex Education in Public Schools

Thu, 04/02/2009 - 17:02

In May 2009, using federal “abstinence-only-until-marriage” funds, the State of Mississippi held a teen abstinence summit. According to the ACLU:  Read more »

Does Marriage Prevent Pregnancy?

Thu, 02/26/2009 - 13:46

In releasing his 2010 budget outline today, President Obama indicates that his administration will continue funding abstinence-only-until-marriage sex education, an approach that has repeatedly failed to reduce teen pregnancy. It does nothing more than prohibit sexual activity among unmarried young people, as if sexual activity after marriage has a different outcome.

To prevent teen pregnancy, the president’s budget "supports State, community-based, and faith-based efforts to reduce teen pregnancy using evidence-based models. The program will fund models that stress the important of abstinence while providing medically-accurate and age-appropriate information to youth who have already become sexually active."  Read more »

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