Sex Education in Schools Essay

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is a non-profit organization that provides reproductive, maternal, and child health services. With a budget of one million dollars and 820 clinics in the United States, PPFA provides services to over three million people in the US. PPFA is the largest provider of reproductive health services in the United States, with clinical interactions focused on breast and cervical cancer screening, HIV screening, contraception, and abortion. PPFA performs…

Condoms and birth control, have really changed society throughout the years? Did you know the first condoms date back to Egyptian times, it is also the oldest form of birth control recorded. The condoms were starting to be discovered in the year of 1855. Gregory Pincus and John Rock first conducted the first human trial on 50 women in Massachusetts in 1954. Other parts of the world also used condoms. In Japan some of the condoms were made of leather and others were made of tortoise shells. In…

medical services. Cecile Richards, the President of Planned Parenthood, lists the statistics in her article, Today, We Fight Back, “every year, 2.7 million people come through the doors of our health centers, a million people participate in our sex education…

In the article “Why Planned Parenthood Is A Valuable Organization That Should Continue Being Funded” a writer for Odyssey explores the several false accusations and misconceptions on the issue at hand of planned parenthood. The Odyssey writer relays the process that Planned Parenthood went about when spending the money received along with reasons the government should continue to fund the institution. Odyssey notes that there are about 700 health centers throughout the United States which…

and reproductive problems. The organization has been around for almost 100 years and has been successful ever since it was first started. They have promoted a commonsense to women concerning their health and help them make good decisions concerning sex and family planning. This organization focuses on helping those who need help on having reliable health care finally have it. Society today debate whether or not the government should defund this organization. Many people may say that defunding…

Limbaugh’s "Condoms: The New Diploma", Limbaugh claims students are being encouraged to have sex through the mass distribution of condoms during school. Limbaugh aims to sway our opinion on this topic. Emphasizing the point that students should be taught abstinence by the schools instead of the distribution of condoms. Therefore he claims that his opponents, condom distributors, argue that teens are going to have sex anyway so why not give them protection. Thus encouraging them to by handing…

issues. On one hand, statistics show that it is more common for teens to start using birth control at age 16, but statistics also show that 3.9% of students have sex before the age of 13; just enough to be considered as 1 to many. I feel like if you’re having sex before the age of 13 or even after, that you’re going to continue to have sex so as parents we should prevent teen pregnancy as well as viruses as soon as possible. Did you know in 2015, a total of 229,715 babies were born to teenagers…

For centuries the education field has experienced controversial topics and this has forced the question of which of these topics do teacher decided to educate on, and if it is appropriate for the classroom. Sex education has been amongst those topics where states have had to decide if sex education was needed and if it was deemed necessary for proper education. Sex Education had gone through a large transformation and it is more essential now more than ever with th rising teen pregancy rates and…

of applicability. Not only is the lemon test pertinent to state funding, but also pubic school curriculum. On example is Kitzmiller vs. Dover (2005). This case questioned the ability of schools to teach intelligent design (ID) as a scientific alternative to evolution. The concluding opinion stated that it was indeed unconsitutional to teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom, as ID is grounded in religion. However, the process of forming that…

may take in middle/high school is sex education. No matter the sexual preference (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, queer) or background of a person, sex education applies to everyone and is important for everyone to understand. According to Ann and Ronald Moglia (2009) sex education is defined as, "how human sexuality is perceived and conceptualized" (p. 159). In other words, sex education is the teaching of sexual ideas and concepts. The main goals of sex education are to inform and…