Civic Action Plan

By kikicadet

  • First Sex Education

    The National Education Association promotes sexuality education as a necessary part of a national education curriculum. This is the largest labor union in the United States. It represents public school teachers and other support personnel, faculty and staffers at colleges and universities, retired educators, and college students preparing to become teachers.
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    History of Sex Education

  • Congress promotes sex ed

    The PTA (Congress of Parents and Teachers) promotes sexuality education before puberty.

  • YMCA on Sex Education

    The YMCA introduces the concept of positive health and promotes sexuality education as part of a total health program; in 1913 it creates a Commission on Sex Education.

  • First birth control clinic

    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. Sex Education by Maurice Bigelow is the first major publication on sexuality education and public schools. It stays in print for over 30 years.

  • White House on Sex Ed

    U.S. government supports sexuality education as part of the White House Conference on Child Welfare.

  • American Medical Association Birth control

    The American Medical Association officially recognizes birth control as an integral part of medical practice and education.

  • Sex Education pamphlets

    The American Medical Association and the National Education Association publish five sexuality education pamphlets for schools.

  • FDA on Contraceptives

    The Food and Drug Administration approves the sale of oral contraceptives. 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.

  • Supreme Court on birth control

    he U.S. Supreme Court in Griswold v. Connecticut rules that there is a right to marital privacy that allows them to get birth control prescriptions

  • Planned Parenthood

    Previous President Eisenhower movies a broadcast open administration declaration for Planned Parenthood. A PPWP review of school exercises in this field questioned all U.S. open secondary schools with enlistments of 1,000 or more, and unmistakably revealed awesome open

  • 1975

    Twenty state legislatures have voted to restrict or abolish sexuality education.

  • Advocates

    Advocates for Youth founded to champion efforts that help young people make informed and responsible discussions about their sexual and reproductive health

  • AdAdolescent Family Life Act

    Adolescent Family Life Act is passed, funding programs to promote sexual abstinence before marriage.

  • Congress Gives Large Money

    Congress authorizes $250 million for abstinence-only education as part of the welfare reform act.

  • Call To Action

    The U.S. Top health spokesperson, Dr. David Satcher, discharges a Call to Action to Promote Sexual Health and Responsible Sexual Behavior, an exploration based require an adult national discussion about sexuality, and more sexuality instruction.

  • The Family Life Education Act

    The Family Life Education Act (FLEA) is presented in congress by Representatives Barbara Lee (D-Ca) and James Greenwood (R-Pa), exhibiting a dream of U.S. sexuality instruction arrangement that is exploration based and upheld by therapeutic, general wellbeing, and training associations, and most of the American individuals.

  • U.S. Supreme Court

    U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Texas homosexuality law, and Canada joins Belgium and The Netherlands in sanctioning same-sex marriage. Government restraint just subsidizing is expanded by $15 million.

  • NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School of Government

    The year starts with a report from NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School of Government that shows support for adjusted sexuality instruction at 94 percent while the Bush organization spending plans $170 million for restraint just training. At year's end Representative Henry Waxman distributes a report that finds more than 66% of governmentally subsidized restraint just projects depend on educational module that are truly imperfect.

  • 25 States Rejected

    Twenty-five states have rejected federal funding for abstinence-only programs, based on evaluations that suggest that they don't have an impact on behavior. Surprisingly Florida was not one of the states to have rejcted this program, because they need these programs.

  • Personal Responsibility Education Program Receives Support

    Congress supports the Personal Responsibility Education Program, which gives $75 million every year to prove based, therapeutically precise, age-suitable projects to instruct young people about both restraint and contraception with a specific end goal to avoid unintended high schooler pregnancy and sexually transmitted maladies (STDs), including HIV/AIDS.