Sex Education in

Utah
Project by Clarissa Quigley
 Introduction
I have super strong beliefs

Who and
that abortion is wrong, and
that's why I wanted that to be
my civic engagement topic.

Why What now?

Unplanned pregnancy is
caused because
"According to the United Nations, of the people involved

understanding one's own body is a

Why it's important
human right." As students, we are affected
-Natalie Blanton by this very topic. We all
took Sex Ed, and we have a
right to have a say in what we
learn.
 My Project

Interview Do my write a letter

teachers research to governor

I wanted to get an My biggest question Coming up with

insight from a direct when researching something to do was
source, teachers was what is taught? extremely
right here at Copper challenging.
Hills.
The teacher
view
According to Natalie Blanton

Abstinence-only

Abstinence-plus

Comprehensive
Curricula

Abstinence-based
Sex Education
mandation in
the Us

Pink= mandated
Grey= not mandated

What do you think?

 I asked Mrs. Jenkins and Mrs.
Mcpherson if they think switching to
comprehensive curricula would cause a
huge upset among the community.

"Yes. These parents like control over State's culture

what their child knows." -Mrs. Jenkins

and beliefs
"If I start teaching how-to's, I can We live in Utah, for crying out loud!
anticipate a massive exodus of it." -Mrs.
Mcpherson
 The Solution
Utah is already on the right track to improving their sex education
program, so the solution to this problem is to keep doing what
we're doing until we are where we need to be.
Other than that, raising awareness and talking about it is a way to
get the state to notice that there needs to be a change.
Sharing on social media, bringing it up to parents, getting different
people's opinions, ect.
Or writing/talking to the people in charge of education, like I did.
"... the thing that I teach
my students is
knowledge is power. If
you don't have that
knowledge, you don't
have the power to
make the choices that
you need to make."
--- Mrs. Jenkins
 Work Cited
https://scholars.org/contribution/why-sex-education-united-states-
needs-update-and-how-do-it
https://www.the74million.org/article/just-24-states-mandate-sex-
education-for-k-12-students-and-only-9-require-any-discussion-of-consent-
see-how-your-state-stacks-up/
https://www.istockphoto.com/illustrations/election-map
The interviews: https://youtu.be/fB5sfVjO_ok
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/us-abortion-
laws-worldwide/