Friday, September 27, 2024

DeSantis Forces Abstinence Only Education, No Anatomy Or Condoms

Some Florida school districts are rolling back a more comprehensive approach to sex education in favor of abstinence-focused lessons

Posted by Sycophant at 01:32 PM | 9 COMMENTS | permalink

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There will be no or very limited information on: contraception, abortion, STDs, safe sex, and rape/domestic abuse.

Welcome to Republican Land.

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DeSantis wants to make it easier for his Republican buddies to groom kids.

#1 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-09-26 11:08 AM

No birth control.

No abortion.

Then they will shame the teenage moms calling them welfare queens and deny them food stamps, WIC and health care.

But there is no war on women.

There is no coincidence that the number of women dying during pregnancy in these sh*thole states are skyrocketing.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-09-26 11:36 AM

Coming next: scarlet letters of sexual shame (for wimun only).

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-09-26 11:50 AM

The local paper here has been an outstanding job of covering this, along with the book bans (and defeats DeSantis has had). This has been utterly ridiculous. The state didn't even bother to respond to our school district's submission of materials for sexual health education, so they cancelled all the classes for the year. Now the state says "just use ours" which is utterly useless at best and honestly, harmful and detrimental to our students.

#4 | Posted by YAV at 2024-09-26 01:51 PM

Keeping the Rubes stupid has long been a top Republican priority... might as well start them out young, I s'pose.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2024-09-26 03:20 PM

They are prohibiting instruction about domestic violence and sexual assault. The GQP takes another step toward allowing rapists to choose mother of their children and now get away with the rape.

#6 | Posted by _Gunslinger_ at 2024-09-27 01:42 AM

I'd lie to know what specific information does Desantis not want young people to learn. Floridians who really want to live in a place where ignorance and

#7 | Posted by danni at 2024-09-27 06:27 AM

Christofascists need citizens to be as ignorant as possible.

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-09-27 02:48 PM

We need those beautiful babies!
--Weird orange-faced guy

I love the poorly educated!
--Same guy, in 2016

#9 | Posted by catdog at 2024-09-27 04:04 PM

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