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title: America’s Leaders Need Sex Ed
date: 2023-12-04T18:00:00-05:00
author: OBOS Admin
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# America’s Leaders Need Sex Ed

By Lauren Kelley • The New York Times • April 5, 2019

> As members of the anti-abortion movement have sought increasingly extreme restrictions on the procedure — and have rolled back access to contraception and other health services — their justifications have become further removed from science and fact. It would be naïve to think that giving every elected official a copy of “Our Bodies, Ourselves” would change that.
> 
> But facts do still matter. And it sure wouldn’t hurt for more people in power to learn about the bodies they’re trying to regulate.

  
Read the full story: [America’s Leaders Need Sex Ed](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/opinion/sex-women-facts-education.html)

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