Outline for English 011

Topic: Sexual Education Abstinence Programs (Against)
Thesis: The author is stating how the abstinence programs isn’t the knowledge kids need to know about sex.
Support 1: There is a need for better reproductive education in America.
Detail: Four out of every five teen pregnancies are unintended. Every year one millions American teenagers will become pregnant. The majority of these pregnancies are unintended because teens didn’t know how to use contraceptives properly.
Detail: Every year, one million American teenagers will become pregnant. The vast majority of these pregnancies will be unintended because teens too often didn’t know how to use contraceptives properly.
Detail: The Bush administration doesn’t see things that clearly, and is instead taking public health advice from the right-wing religious conservative organizations who believe the best approach to “solving the problem” of teen pregnancy and STI transmission is abstinence-only-until-marriage education.
Support 2: Three-fourths of U.S. teens have premarital sex by age 20, and 58% have had it before age 18. Abstinence education has little to no effect on sexual practices of teenagers.
Detail: One girl accepted a ring the Silver Ring thing, a youth abstinence program; and lost her virginity two weeks later. Many boys believed that the stories about sex made “the man.” And a handful of students engaged in sex acts with multiple partners.
Detail: Girls also seem to go with the desires of male counterparts in order to be accepted socially. We need to help teens with the enormous social and sexual pressures they face.
Detail: Many who had sexual experiences realized later that they regretted their decisions and hoped for something more meaningful: a loving relationship. Kids need to learn how to develop healthy sexual relationships, whether or not they are forever.
Support 3: Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage leave behind teens that:
Detail: Have already been sexually active, been sexually abused. Abstinence rely on messages of fear and shame for those who have engaged in premarital sex. Sexual health is not just physical but emotional too.
Detail: Are HIV positive or have other STDs. Parents arent married. Suggesting that these families are inferior or detrimental to society can harm and alienate many young people.
Detail: Are homosexual, bisexual, transgender or questioning. Material that excludes part of the student body, provides misinformation, and feeds false stereotypes has no place in the classroom.