A radical sex education bill was signed by the Governor this spring. Despite polling reported by the Arlington Group that shows parents overwhelmingly want their children taught abstinence, Planned Parenthood pushed a “comprehensive sex education” bill in Iowa. Studies of this curriculum show that less than 5% of comprehensive sex education is actually devoted to abstinence.

In an interview with IFPC, State Senator Paul McKinley pointed to just a few of the bill’s problems when he said, “This is one of those sleeper bills that on the surface may appear to be rather benign. But I can tell you without hesitation that it is absolutely new, intrusive social engineering. … To make this more palatable to many parents, they put the word ‘abstinence’ in, but then they proceed to mention other methods to prevent pregnancy, and then they mention emergency contraception, and they talk about materials for sexual orientation.”

This law asks all accredited Iowa schools to use a state-wide comprehensive sex education curriculum. If schools choose not to use that curriculum, the burden is placed on the school to inform parents they won’t be using the state’s curriculum. Additionally, Planned Parenthood is already working to become the “contracted consultants” mentioned in the bill so that they are hired by schools to teach sex education.

Civil Rights Code Change Leaves Religious Iowans Behind
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