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If you believe Texas children should be taught comprehensive, medically accurate, scientifically sound sexuality education, then join our efforts! Call the public affairs department for more information at (956) 546-4574

Facts on Sex Education and Teen Pregnancy in Texas

* Texas receives more federal funding for abstinence - only programs than any other state in the country. In 2007, Texas received $18,213,472 in federal funding. This is 27 percent more than the next highest state.

* At the same time, Texas has the highest rate of births and repeat births to teenage girls in the nation.

* In 2004, teen childbearing in Texas cost taxpayers at least $1 billion.

* In 2007, 52 percent of high-school aged teenages in Texas reported having had sex. Only fifty-six percent of Texas high school students report using a condom the last time they had sex.

* According to the Centers for Disease Control, 1 in 4 teenage girls have a sexually transmitted disease.

* In a 2004 Scripps Howard Poll, 90% of Texas surveyed said they favored teaching public school students age-appropriate, medically accurate sex education that includes information on abstinence, birth control and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and HIV.

* A 2008 Pineda Consulting poll of female Hispanics voters in Texas found that 83% favor teaching students in public schools about the role birth control and condoms play in preventing teenage and sexually transmitted diseases.