Healthy Youth Act Passes Assembly!

Healthy Youth Act Passes in the Assembly! Your Representative Voted YES! Thank them today.

The Healthy Youth Act requires schools that choose to teach sex education do so in a responsible, comprehensive manner that includes information about abstinence and birth control to prevent teen pregnancies and STDs.

Last evening, the Assembly voted in session to pass the Healthy Youth Act! We’re one step closer to ensuring that Wisconsin youth and teens receive medically accurate and age appropriate information in their schools!

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Dear [ Decision Maker ],

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Thank you for helping to pass the Healthy Youth Act and working towards a responsible future for Wisconsin youth!

As you know, STI and the number of unintended pregnancies are on the rise here in Wisconsin.  Twenty percent of new HIV infections in the state are diagnosed in young people ages 15-24.  These outcomes have a devastating impact on the teen parents and state taxpayers. Teen mothers are more likely to drop out of high school and children born to teens are nine times more likely to live in poverty.  Each year, Wisconsin spends $273 million on costs associated with unintended teen childbearing and STDs.

The Healthy Youth Act requires that public schools that choose to offer sexuality education include core elements that have been proven to reduce teen pregnancy and STI rates.  These elements are taught when age appropriate and include: stressing abstinence as the most reliable way to prevent pregnancy and STIs; discussing contraception and barrier methods to prevent disease and pregnancy and the development of healthy life skills, to name a few.

Thanks to you, we are one step closer to comprehensive sex ed for Wisconsin schools. This is critical to ensuring our youth have access to this critical information to make healthy decisions, and their parents are better informed on what is being taught in their children's schools.

Sincerely,
[Your name]
[Your address]

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