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The 4th International Congress on School Hygiene promotes publicly funded sexuality instruction for parents for the purpose of gaining support for school sexuality education
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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 National Committee for Federal Legislation on Birth Control and the Birth Control Clinical Research Bureau merged to form the Birth Control Federation of America.
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The U.S. Public Health Service labels school sexuality education an "urgent need."
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Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. is adopted as the new name for the Birth Control Federation of America.
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The American School Health Association launches a nationwide program in family life education
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SIECUS founded by Dr. Mary Calderon to provide information and education about sexuality.
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Congress enacts Title X of the Public Health Services Act, providing funding for family planning services, educational programs, and research. The White House Conference on Children recommends "consumer-determined, publicly funded programs of 1) family life, sex and population education and, 2) voluntary family planning services and safe abortion, available for all."
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The Supreme Court strikes down an 1859 Texas law prohibiting abortions in Roe v. Wade.
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Twenty state legislatures have voted to restrict or abolish sexuality education.
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Advocates for Youth founded to champion efforts that help young people make informed and responsible discussions about their sexual and reproductive health
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Adolescent Family Life Act is passed, funding programs to promote sexual abstinence before marriage.
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Adolescent Family Life Act is passed, funding programs to promote sexual abstinence before marriage.
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Dr. CE Koop, Surgeon General sent a report on HIV/AIDs to 107 million households in the USA signaling that AIDs was a public health issue, not a moral issue
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Congress authorizes $250 million for abstinence-only education as part of the welfare reform act.
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U.S. Supreme Court strikes down Texas sodomy law, and Canada joins Belgium and The Netherlands in legalizing same-sex marriage. Federal abstinence-only funding is increased by $15 million
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The year begins with a report from NPR/Kaiser/Kennedy School of Government that shows support for balanced sexuality education at 94 percent while the Bush administration budgets $170 million for abstinence-only education. At year's end Representative Henry Waxman publishes a report that finds over two-thirds of federally- funded abstinence-only programs rely on curricula that are seriously flawed
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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.
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Congress funds the Personal Responsibility Education Program, 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
