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The National Education Association called for teacher training programs in sexuality education.
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Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York, providing family planning education, counseling, and imported diaphragms. She is arrested and jailed on obscenity charges.
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The Public Health Service publishes the Manual on Sex Education in High Schools.
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The American Medical Association officially recognizes birth control as an integral part of medical practice and education.
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The U.S. Public Health Service strongly advocated sexuality education in the schools, labeling it an "urgent need."
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The American Medical Association and the National Education Association publish five sexuality education pamphlets for schools.
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Opposition to sexuality education begins to be organized by the John Birch Society, Christian Crusade, Parents Opposed to Sex and Sensitivity Education, Sanity on Sex, and Mothers Organized for Moral Stability.
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SIECUS founded by Dr. Mary Calderon to provide information and education about sexuality.
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The Supreme Court strikes down an 1859 Texas law prohibiting abortions in Roe v. Wade.
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Sexuality education was being taught within the context of more comprehensive family life education programs or human growth and development courses. Such an approach emphasized not only reproduction, but also the importance of self-esteem, responsibility, and decision making.
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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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Over 90 percent of all U.S. schools offered sexuality education programming.
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Congress authorizes $250 million for abstinence-only education as part of the welfare reform act.
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Congress funds the Personal Responsibility Education Programs, which provides $75 million annually for evidence-based, medically accurate, age-appropriate programs to educate adolescents about both abstinence and contraception in order to prevent unintended teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV/AIDS.
