The first reason abstinence-only sex education should be abolished in schools is because its excludes a variety of important information and distorts the information it does share. According to “Abstinence Education,” those who disapprove of abstinence-only sex education “feel that the program fails to provide enough facts for young people to make an educated decision about losing their virginity” and doesn’t teach “teens how to protect themselves against disease and unintended pregnancies, by using contraceptives, such as condoms and birth control pills.” Even if abstinence-only programs wanted to share this information, they “are required to withhold information on contraception and condom use, except for information on failure rates.” Additionally, “Abstinence-only curricula have been found to contain scientifically inaccurate information, distorting data on topics such as condom efficacy, and promote gender stereotypes.” Finally, “Abstinence-only policy violate the human rights of adolescents because they withhold …show more content…
Learning about STDs is critical to understand as a sexually active person so that you can know the symptoms and also that some STDs do not have any noticeable symptoms so you should get checked frequently for STDs. “As a result of sexual risk-taking, about one in four sexually experienced teens contract an STD each year some, of which are incurable, including HIV, which is, of course, life-threatening.” (2-3, Kirby). Sue Alford believes that “Youth need to know how to avoid the potential negative consequences of sexual intercourse. Every young person urgently needs accurate information about contraception and condoms. STDs... are extremely common.”(“Alford” “Abstinence””) “Frohnapfel-Krueger” wrote that “The health and future of every adolescent is shadowed by risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including