On Friday night, Utah Governor Gary Herbert bowed to pressure from a broad coalition of Utah families and vetoed a controversial bill that would have outlawed discussion of contraception in tenth-grade health education classes.
Utah already has a conservative approach to sexual education that allows school districts to choose “abstinence only” curriculum or “abstinence-based” curriculum that includes basic information about contraception. House Bill 363 aimed to ban all discussion of contraception and to allow school districts to opt out of sexual education altogether. It’s yet another instance of anti-contraception political rhetoric and action this year.
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