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Post by phalange3 on Oct 13, 2016 0:04:21 GMT
Whereas, comprehensive sexual health education provides evidence-based, medically accurate, and developmentally appropriate sexual health information that is effective in helping adolescents delay sexual activity and in increasing contraceptive use when they become sexually active,
Whereas, millions of federal dollars are still being spent yearly on abstinence-only programs which are ineffective and more importantly these programs may deter contraceptive use among sexually active adolescents and consequently increasing their risk of unintended pregnancy and STIs; therefore be it
RESOLVED, that the Academy encourage all states to implement a comprehensive sexual education program which includes education on STIs, pregnancy prevention, sexuality, dating, consent, healthy relationships, communication, and birth control methods in addition to supporting the elimination of the federal Abstinence Only Until Marriage Programs.
LEAD AUTHOR: Danielle Connor, MD
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Post by cpulcini on Oct 15, 2016 11:03:50 GMT
I fully support this, but it may face some challenge in the general assembly with the reference to birth control methods. I feel that this is an essential component however to a comprehensive sexual health program, and if the authors feel strongly I would definitely keep it in and see how it does!
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Post by marcial on Oct 19, 2016 14:26:06 GMT
As a pediatrician i fully support, as a conservative I also fully support, I think it's time to educate instead of wishful thinking. The concern will always be that education will lead to increase of premature sexual relations, but evidence shows that is not true. Besides, tv and social media already sexualizes kids, this would be to properly educate them on what they already think they know. How ever, I would be very careful with the abstinence wording, it should still be included as a part of the discussion and not marginalized as something wrong, it is still a valid option for many kids until adulthood, even if it is hard to believe for the more cynical among us.
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Post by kw on Oct 19, 2016 16:17:40 GMT
As with any policy that may be politically polarizing, I think the best approach would be to ensure that the resolution wording places emphasis on encouraging techniques that are most evidence-based for preventing the outcomes you are seeking to achieve.
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Post by zarah on Oct 20, 2016 16:04:36 GMT
I think it is also important to have these programs be evidence-based as much as possible, and to have evaluation systems in place so that we can evaluate sexual education programs and learn what works and what doesn't work
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Post by zarah on Oct 20, 2016 18:01:11 GMT
I think the AAP already has policy in comprehensive sex education, and I'm not sure what this resolution is adding that is new. Also, I think we are limiting ourselves if we only address states, because many programs are district based, and many charter schools are exempt from state regulations for things like sexual education. I think we could word this more broadly to emphasize that we want to make sure every child has access to comprehensive sex ed instead of being prescriptive about how we want to do that.
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Post by Sarah on Oct 21, 2016 23:53:25 GMT
I would vote yes, but probably should be 2 separate resolves (instead of "in addition").
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Post by joe on Oct 22, 2016 15:45:07 GMT
I really like this statement but agree with the above statements that the AAP has a similar statement already actually from a long time ago.
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