The Right-Wing War on Sex Ed continues......

[marmar]

from the NY Times:



U.N. Guide for Sex Ed Generates Opposition

By STEVEN ERLANGER
Published: September 2, 2009


PARIS — A set of proposed international sex education guidelines aimed at reducing H.I.V. infections among young people has provoked criticism from conservative groups that say the program would be too explicit for young children and promote access to legal abortion as a right.

The guidelines, scheduled to be released by Unesco in a new draft next week, would be distributed to education ministries, school systems and teachers around the world to help guide teachers in what to teach young people about their bodies, sex, relationships and sexually transmitted diseases. They would address four different age groups.

“In the absence of a vaccine for AIDS, education is the only vaccine we have,” said Mark Richmond, Unesco’s global coordinator for H.I.V. and AIDS and the director of the division that coordinates educational priorities. “Only 40 percent of young people aged 15 to 24 have accurate knowledge” of how the disease is transmitted, he said, even though that age group “accounts for 45 percent of all new cases.”

But the conservative criticism has already caused one of the key participating and donor agencies, the United Nations Population Fund, to pull back from the project and ask that its name be edited out of the published material, United Nations officials said. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/03/world/03unesco.html?_r=1&ref=world

[fascisthunter]

1. the right wing, and their pathetic culture war

get over it dumbasses, we aren't going back!

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Of course. Abortion, like healthcare, is a PRIVILEGE, not a right.

Only those who can afford a safe abortion should have access to it.

:sarcasm: