My children came through the Wasilla, Sara Palin, era of "abstinance only", sex education.  Despite being educated by myself on the dangers of and prevention of STD's, one of the 3 still contracted HPV.  In discussing birth control and disease prevention with my grandchildren, I was told by my grandson, "If you don't have a STD at my high school, you must not be having sex". Our children have both the need for and the right to have, comprehensive, medically acurate, sex education in our schools. Education doesn't increase the instance of abortion, keeping our children ignorant of the medical realities of their actions does.