Sex Education Programs For Teens Targeted By GOP Lawmakers

MaxShimba · 2013-04-02T13:54:17+00:00

Source: Huffington Post In addition to passing some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation so far this year, Republican lawmakers in North Dakota, Arkansas and Texas are now pushing bills that would defund comprehensive sex education programs for at-risk teenagers. The North Dakota legislature is currently considering an amendment to an anti-abortion bill that would effectively block a $1.2 million federal grant for a sex education program for teens who are homeless or in foster programs. Planned Parenthood and North Dakota State University were jointly planning to administer the program, which would have provided counseling and information about abstinence, contraception and sexually transmitted infections. But state Rep. Bette Grande (R-Fargo) proposed to kill the grant to keep Planned Parenthood out of teen sex education in North Dakota, even though the family planning provider does not operate any clinics in the state. "They're not a part of how we do business in this state," Grande said of Planned Parenthood in January after the sex ed program was announced. "It is an overt abortion industry that we don't want to be a part of." Read more: Sex Education Programs For Teens Targeted By GOP Lawmakers In this Jan. 31, 2013 file photo, Rep. Bette Grande testifies before the House Human Services Committee in Bismarck, N.D. Grande introduced an amendment to an abortion bill that would eliminate a sex education program for at-risk youth. (AP Photo/James MacPherson) What this throwback idiot is doing, is increasing the number of abortions.

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Start date Apr 2, 2013

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