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Colo. Lawmaker Proposes Sex Education Reform

by KREX News Room
by Jordan Sherman

Story Created: Feb 7, 2013 at 12:01 PM MDT

Story Updated: Feb 7, 2013 at 12:01 PM MDT

DENVER- Representative Crisanta Duran is proposing a sex education reform for Colorado.

The bill would reform current standards for sex education with a new standard for teaching abstinence and safe sex.

Current standards require parents to sign a permission slip for students to take the class, however, the measure would make the course mandatory.

Parents will still have an opportunity to say no if they would like.

The bill would also create a grant program to help schools get federal money to implement expanded instruction if they choose.

The bill is set to be voted on by a House committee today.

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Disgusted said on Thursday, Feb 7 at 12:33 PM

A democrat.

Dillard Jenkins said on Thursday, Feb 7 at 2:55 PM

The U.S. has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the industrialized world – twice as high as in England or Canada, and ten times higher than Switzerland. The U.S. teen pregnancy rate dropped six percent between 2008 and 2009. About 750,000 teens get pregnant in the United States each year. Nevada has the highest teen birth rate; 113 out of every 1,000 teens will get pregnant. About 1 in 3 women become pregnant at least once before they're 20. A sexually active teen who does not use contraceptives has a 90% chance of becoming pregnant within a year. It affects education - only a third of teen mothers earn their high school diploma. And only 1.5% have a college degree by age 30. It also affects their kids - girls born to teen mothers are more likely to be teen mothers themselves. Boys born to teen moms are more likely to end up in prison. 75% of girls and over half of boys report that girls who have sex do so because their boyfriends want them to.

Floyd said on Thursday, Feb 7 at 10:55 PM

As hollywood leads the nations youth in violent movies and video games, so also hollywood leads the youth with their version of "sex education". With trashy role models being exalted by all the media in this country, no amount of sex education in the schools will make a difference. It is just another means of extracting more money in the form of another tax, and taking more parental rights away from the parents. Government has failed to do right by the American people, now they think they know what is best for the kids. Immorality only begets more immorality.

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