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Abstinence Vs Comprehensive Sex Education

Sexuality has long been a sensitive topic, providing the alarming facts that:
• Slightly more than half of females and nearly two-thirds of males have had experienced sexual intercourse by their 18th birthday, suggested in a research by Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, US Department of Health and Human Services. (Moore et al., Review section 1: Sexual Intercourse)
• With 750,000 teenage pregnancies a year, America has the highest teen birth rates in the developed world, as updated in June 2008 by Planned Parenthood Federation of America. (“Teen Pregnancy” par.1-2)
• More than three-quarters of teenage pregnancies are unintended. About 30 percent of adolescent pregnancies result in abortion, 14 percent end in miscarriage, and the remaining 56 percent result in live births. (“Teen Pregnancy articles” par.1)

When the spotlight shifts to sex education, a heated debate is stirred over whether contraception should be covered in abstinence programs.......


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