One of the most debated topics in the United States for over several decades is whether sex education should be taught in public schools. Sex education is instruction on issues describing human sexuality, including sexual reproduction, safe intercourse, birth control, reproductive rights, and sexual abstinence. Some people believe that abstinence is the only way sex education should be taught, and that teaching safe sex encourages sexual relations in adolescents. However, there are several other people who think safe sex and abstinence should be taught alongside each other. In “Let 's Talk About Sex: The Failure of Abstinence Only Policies in America 's Public Schools,” The author, Solan Cadwell tries to logically prove how abstinence-only
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His main point is to determine whether or not teaching abstinence-only sex education is humane. The author uses the World Health Association to dictate how sexual health must be attained and measured as moral and ethical in line with human rights. To guide how to measure human rights, he used the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an authority to precept these. As a supplement, Cadwell also relies on the United States Constitution to measure human rights in terms of how they are implemented in the United States government. These three authorities are fit to be used as appeals to dictate what is appropriate and what is not, in terms of sexual …show more content…
Throughout this article, the author unnecessarily makes the issue partisan and relieves his personal bias, while discussing abstinence-only and comprehensive sex education. From the thesis one can see that Solan Cadwell is for comprehensive sex education over abstinence-only sex education, but by use of evidence, appeal to logic and ethos he supports his side of the argument. Sex education should inform and teach adolescents about safe sex and how to avoid having unwanted pregnancies and sexuallly transmitted infections. That is why comprehensive sex education should be taught in public schools. It teaches about abstinence as the best method for avoiding STDs and unintended pregnancy, but also teaches about condoms and contraception to reduce the risk of unwanted pregnancy and of infection with sexually transmitted
His main point is to determine whether or not teaching abstinence-only sex education is humane. The author uses the World Health Association to dictate how sexual health must be attained and measured as moral and ethical in line with human rights. To guide how to measure human rights, he used the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an authority to precept these. As a supplement, Cadwell also relies on the United States Constitution to measure human rights in terms of how they are implemented in the United States government. These three authorities are fit to be used as appeals to dictate what is appropriate and what is not, in terms of sexual …show more content…
Throughout this article, the author unnecessarily makes the issue partisan and relieves his personal bias, while discussing abstinence-only and comprehensive sex education. From the thesis one can see that Solan Cadwell is for comprehensive sex education over abstinence-only sex education, but by use of evidence, appeal to logic and ethos he supports his side of the argument. Sex education should inform and teach adolescents about safe sex and how to avoid having unwanted pregnancies and sexuallly transmitted infections. That is why comprehensive sex education should be taught in public schools. It teaches about abstinence as the best method for avoiding STDs and unintended pregnancy, but also teaches about condoms and contraception to reduce the risk of unwanted pregnancy and of infection with sexually transmitted