Sex Education

"Teaching sex education to kindergartners is the right thing to do." ~President Barack Obama at a Planned Parenthood event

About the issue:

Abstinence from sexual activity before marriage is the most effective way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). This fact is one of the main reasons why, in Texas, public schools must teach abstinence education more than any other method in regards to preventing pregnancy and STDs. Some people believe that Texas is an "abstinence-only" state. This is utterly false. Texas public schools have three options for sex education: (1) teach abstinence-only sex education, (2) teach abstinence and contraceptives methods of preventing pregnancy and STDs, with more focus on abstinence; or (3) teach no sex education at all.

This emphasis of abstinence over other methods has resulted in a dramatic decrease in teen abortions, teen pregnancies, and teen births. Since Texas began promoting abstinence-based education, teen pregnancies are down 24%, teen abortions have dropped by 41%, and teen births are down 22%. However, Planned Parenthood and others want change this, by completing a massive takeover of sex education, where students are banned from being taught that abstinence is 100% effective at preventing pregnancy and STDs.

What We're Doing:

Liberty Institute is actively involved in protecting current state law that requires abstinence to be taught more than any other method and that allows for local School Health Advisory Committees (SHAC) to decide on sex education curriculum, with compliance to state law. We have already been successful at defeating Planned Parenthood's recent attempt to takeover statewide sex education, which would result in more information and instruction about how to perform deviant sex acts. The information Planned Parenthood peddles is so obscene, we have refrained from publishing it on this website. We are also actively exposing the funneling of taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood and others who seek to undermine effective sex education and bombard students with explicit sex instruction. We will continue to expose PP's relationship with numerous schools in Texas, as PP holds the view that "kindergarten is not too early to start sex education."

What are they teaching at your school?