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during a conference in Buffalo, New York, several organizations dedicated to fighting prostitution and venereal disease joined together to form the American Social Hygiene Association (ASHA).
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This program was to educate people about venereal dieseases. It was to also spread pamphlets and books to the people for further understanding
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Schools have begun implementing more sexual education classses in schools than in earlier years
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the American School Health Association launched a nationwide program in family life education
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The first wave of organized opposition, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, started attacks aimed at any form of sex ed in school. They saw it as a "communist plot"
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Dr. Mary Caulderon, medical director for
Planned Parenthood Federation of America,
founded the Sexuality Information and Education
Council of the United States out of her
concern that young people and adults lacked
accurate information about sex, sexuality, and
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This act was to provide married women with information to and about contraception and also gave information to teenagers.
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this strongly recommended that schools and teachers are to be trained in sexual education and teacher training plans be implemented
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Supreme Court legalized abortion
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President Regan passed a program designed to prevent teenage pregnancy by encouraging "chastity and self-discipline" among teenagers
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sexuality education was taught within the context of more comprehensive family life education programs or human growth and development courses
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U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop issued a report calling for comprehensive AIDS and sexuality education in public schools, beginning as early as the third grade.
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congress passed legislation, a national policy for sexuality education and appropriated 250 million dollars over five years to implement abstinence-until-marriage programs in schools
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Before 1998, 10 states required that sexuality education programs teach abstinence and did not require the inclusion of information about contraception.
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Congress allowed Title V abstinence-only-until-marriage program, to expire on June 30, 2009
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$110 million for the President’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative (TPPI)
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March 2010 the abstinence only until marriage program was resurrected as part of the health care reform package, which allocated $50 million a year in mandatory funding for five years
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22 states and the District of Columbia require public schools teach sex education
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33 states and the District of Columbia require students receive instruction about HIV/AIDS.
