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Heathen Teens Allowed to Rally for Planned Parenthood Sex Bill

More than 100 students and parents marched Saturday through downtown Salt Lake City to the Capitol. There, they delivered letters to lawmakers, urging them to consider changing sex education in Utah. West High School senior Emma Waitzman organized the rally after a Senate committee refused to hear a sex education bill. The bill would have clarified state law to help teachers understand they are allowed to teach about contraception. Now, some teachers avoid the topic out of fear of accidentally breaking state law, which prohibits "the advocacy or encouragement" of contraception. The bill also would have directed the State Office of Education to develop materials on contraception for teachers to use and would have made those materials available for parents to review. Sen. Stephen Urquhart, R-St. George, the state PTA, the Planned Parenthood Action Council and others worked on the bill, but ultimately no one on the Senate Education Committee was willing to make a motion to consider it.
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Posted by Editor at March 8, 2010 01:19 AM