NC lawmaker wants to stop abstinence-only teaching
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From wire reports
Published: April 30, 2008
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A Fayetteville lawmaker wants to put an end to a state law restricting sex education to teaching only abstinence in most North Carolina public schools.
Democrat Rep. Rick Glazier told a forum on sex education in Cumberland County schools Tuesday that children are needlessly exposed to cervical cancer and other diseases because some abstinence-only programs dispense inaccurate data.
The Fayetteville Observer also reports that Glazier said some of the programs teach that condoms usually fail to protect against HIV or pregnancy.
State law allows school districts to expand sex education beyond the abstinence-only approach, with public hearings.
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