Changes to Colorado sex-ed curriculum pass in raucous late-night House hearing

[TexasTowelie]

A 10-hour hearing with hundreds of witnesses, mostly opposed, didn’t dissuade Democrats on a House committee Wednesday night from advancing a bill that will ban abstinence-only education and make other changes to the state’s comprehensive sex education curriculum for public schools.

House Bill 1032, sponsored by Democratic Reps. Susan Lontine of Denver and Yadira Caraveo of Thornton, was the subject of hours of testimony and passed the House Health and Insurance Committee on a party-line 7-4 vote.

The bill heads to the House Appropriations Committee because it carries a $1 million grant for schools that choose to offer a comprehensive sex education curriculum.

Under the measure, Colorado schools that teach sex education would have to provide “medically accurate information about all preventive methods to avoid unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS.”

Read more: https://gazette.com/news/changes-to-colorado-sex-ed-curriculum-pass-in-raucous-late/article_12593464-6bf9-5f89-b7e2-248e2e26fbc3.html

[Laffy Kat]

1. YAY! Proud of of Democrats.

It seems so simple. I'm going to thank Reps. Lontine and Caraveo.

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2. Excellent news! n/t

[CousinIT]

3. ALSO in Colorado, most restrictive abortion ban possible proposed...

Oklahoma state Sen. Joseph Silk prefiled another ridiculous piece of legislation to restrict abortion.

https://rewire.news/article/2019/01/22/legislative-lowlights-total-abortion-bans-proposed-in-colorado-indiana-and-texas-last-week/

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Last Monday, lawmakers in the state house of representatives introduced the “Protect Human Life at Conception Act,” a fetal homicide bill that would prohibit terminating or causing the termination of a pregnancy, beginning at the moment of conception. The measure would completely ban abortion and make it a felony—punishable by life imprisonment or even the death penalty—to perform an abortion or cause the termination of a pregnancy. It contains an exception to save the life of the pregnant person, but not for cases of rape or incest.

The promotion of the reproductive enslavement of America's women continues apace.

[mountain grammy]

4. Many men (and women) will never give up on the idea of total control of women.