A few weeks ago, I gave an update of a couple of Ohio youth advocates who gave witness testimony in support of Ohio Prevention First, specifically for comprehensive sex education.
More recently, the opposition had its chance to testify before the Ohio House Health Committee. You can view the witnesses and see their testimony here: http://www.prochoiceohio.org/issues/pfthirdhearing.shtml
Many of the witnesses focused on the comp sex ed piece proposed in Ohio Prevention First. As usual, they continued to promote misinformation, distortion, and outright lies
For example, Peggy Pecchio, Director of Operation Keepsake, refers to a 2007 Zogby push poll to support her claim that Ohio parents want abstinence-only education for their children. Well, that poll was funded by the National Abstinence Education Association.
She then refers to the 2007 Quinnipiac poll (an independent research institution) in which Ohio voters support comp sex ed. But she tried to say that the wording in the poll “erroneously said that Title V abstinence education did not allow for condom or contraception education”. Well, Peggy, that’s true. Where in the A-H guidelines does it allow for condom or contraception education?
Here’s the outcome that Peggy and other ab-only supporters try to deny: “They [voters] support 51 - 40 percent, … Voters oppose abstinence-only sex education 51 - 43 percent and prefer 71 - 18 percent sex education that emphasizes both the value of abstinence and the value of using contraception.”
Peggy did agree in her testimony that parents do want their children to have information about condoms and contraception. Thank you Peggy. But we don’t want it from you. We want medically accurate information, not information just about the failure rates of contraception. You know, the kind of “information” you teach.
There’s a lot more misinformation here and in other opponent testimony. If you can stomach it, take a minute to review it. Then go to the Ohio action alert and tell our legislators that Ohio youth deserve medically accurate comprehensive sex education!
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