What Are The Benefits Of Safe Sex Education

If you give a man a fishing pole that has never used one before and you tell him to fish not only will he not know how, but he won 't know what to do once he 's caught a fish. Similarly if boys and girls are not educated on how to practice safe sex and the various options they have should something go wrong then they won’t know what to do; they will more than likely take the easy way out which would be abortion. By offering free birth control and better educate not just women, but men on sex then we can decrease the amount of unintended pregnancies which could cause the abortion rate to lower. A nationwide program that educates young people of all races and sexualities how to practice safe sex is a better solution than a health class that has a curriculum that varies state to state and only teaches abstinence rather than practicing safe sex or simply offering birth control. Education in all areas of life is vital because ignorance is something that guarantees a serious …show more content…
If the expectant mother was educated on all risks that come with pregnancy as well as how to prevent unplanned pregnancy the rate of abortion would drop.
Sex education programs have been proven to actually lower abortion rate and the number of young adolescents having unsafe sex. Abstinence programs aren’t as effective as sex education programs because “An influential minority of individuals promote unrealistic, abstinence-only programs and parental consent requirements for obtaining contraception that deny American teens accurate information about and confidential access to family planning services to prevent pregnancy”(Planned Parenthood). In other words these individuals are promoting ignorance. Another reason abstinence only programs aren’t effective is because “ they fail to delay the onset of intercourse and often provide information that is medically inaccurate and potentially misleading (Kirby, 2007; Kohler et al., 2008; Lin & Santelli, 2008; Trenholm