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109TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 4059 

To prohibit departments, agencies, and other instrumentalities of the Federal 

Government from providing assistance to an entity for the development 

of course material or the provision of instruction on human development 

and sexuality, if such material or instruction will include medically inaccurate information, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

NOVEMBER 16, 2006 

Mr. LAUTENBERG introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 

referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs 

A BILL 

To prohibit departments, agencies, and other instrumentalities of the Federal Government from providing assistance to an entity for the development of course material 

or the provision of instruction on human development 

and sexuality, if such material or instruction will include 

medically inaccurate information, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Guarantee of Medical 

5 Accuracy in Sex Education Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

2 The Congress finds as follows: 

3 (1) A 2006 Government Accountability Office 

4 report entitled ‘‘Abstinence Education: Efforts to 

5 Assess the Accuracy and Effectiveness of Federally 

6 Funded Programs’’ finds that the Department of 

7 Health and Human Services does not review the 

8 content of the major federally funded abstinence9 only education programs for accuracy. 

10 (2) All federally funded programs aimed at 

11 helping young people make healthy decisions regard12 ing their relationships and sexual health should in13 clude medically accurate information. 

14 (3) A 2004 report from the Minority Office of 

15 the Committee on Government Reform of the House 

16 of Representatives found serious medical inaccura17 cies associated with a large majority of federally 

18 funded abstinence-only-until-marriage programs. 

19 (4) The Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM) 

20 found in a 2006 position paper that abstinence-only21 until-marriage programs ‘‘provide incomplete and/or 

22 misleading information’’ and states that ‘‘efforts to 

23 promote abstinence should be based on sound 

24 science’’. 

25 (5) The American College of Obstetricians and 

26 Gynecologists have also expressed ‘‘the importance 


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1 of ensuring that all federally funded sexuality edu2 cation programs include information that is medi3 cally accurate and complete’’. 

4 (6) The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) 

5 believes that ‘‘children and adolescents need accu6 rate and comprehensive education about sexuality to 

7 practice healthy sexual behavior as adults’’. 

8 (7) The American Public Health Association 

9 (APHA) ‘‘recognize[s] that sexuality is a normal, 

10 healthy aspect of human development . . . and that 

11 individuals of all ages require complete and accurate 

12 information about all aspects of sexuality’’. APHA 

13 ‘‘endorses the right of children and youth to receive 

14 comprehensive sexuality education that includes 

15 facts, information, and data and that demonstrates 

16 an appreciation of racial, ethnic, and cultural diver17 sity’’. 

18 (8) The American Medical Association ‘‘urges 

19 schools to implement comprehensive, developmentally 

20 appropriate sexuality education programs that are 

21 based on rigorous, peer reviewed science’’. 

22 (9) Over 1 billion dollars in citizen taxpayer 

23 money has been spent on abstinence-only-until-mar24 riage programs in the past quarter century without 

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1 grams in order to guarantee they contain medically 

2 accurate information and exclude inaccurate data. 

3 SEC. 3. MEDICALLY INACCURATE SEX EDUCATION. 

4 (a) REQUIREMENTS.—A department, agency, or 

5 other instrumentality of the Federal Government shall not 

6 provide funds or other assistance to an entity for the de7 velopment of course material or the provision of instruc8 tion on human development and sexuality, including any 

9 sex education, family life education, abstinence education, 

10 comprehensive health education, or character education, if 

11 such material or instruction will include medically inac12 curate information. Before providing such funds or other 

13 assistance, the department, agency, or instrumentality 

14 shall require a sufficient assurance that such material or 

15 instruction will not include medically inaccurate informa16 tion. 

17 (b) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act, the term ‘‘medically 

18 inaccurate information’’ means information related to 

19 medical, psychiatric, psychological, empirical, or statistical 

20 statements that is unsupported or contradicted by peer21 reviewed research by leading medical, psychological, psy22 chiatric, and public health organizations and agencies. 

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