Cause-oriented groups, including Christian organizations, are exerting a last-ditch effort to stop approval in the Senate of a bill meant to stop the alarming rise of teen pregnancies, but which they said would harm innocent young children while depriving parents of any say on how sex education should be...
Cause-oriented groups, including Christian organizations, are exerting a last-ditch effort to stop approval in the Senate of a bill meant to stop the alarming rise of teen pregnancies, but which they said would harm innocent young children while depriving parents of any say on how sex education should be taught to their children.
The authors of the bill, said the opposers, label it as an “Anti-Teen Pregnancy Bill,” but hidden within is a curriculum called Comprehensive Sexuality Education .Teaching children as young as 4 years old about childhood masturbation.Asserting that by age 9, children have their own sexual rights. “Along with faith-based communities and concerned parents, help us share this message and help spread the word,” added the petition organizers, who urgently sought signatures to stop the Senate passage.
The PSA data showed there were 3,343 children born to mothers who were 15 years old and younger in 2023. Of this number, PSA said 3,225 children were born out of wedlock while the remaining 118 children were born to 15 year old and under mothers who were already married.
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