LGUs urged to hold sex ed classes to counter expected rise in teenage pregnancies during COVID crisis

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MANILA - Senate Committee on Basic Education chair Sen.

Sherwin Gatchalian on Wednesday urged local government units to implement sex education courses in communities to avoid an expected rise in teenage pregnancies during the coronavirus pandemic.

"Ngayon natin dapat mas patatagin ang mga programa laban sa maagang pagbubuntis upang hindi mapagkaitan ang ating mga kabataan ng magandang kinabukasan," he said. A 65-percent rise in teenage pregnancies was also observed in Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak in 2014 and 2015, he said.

 

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Via transistor radio?

SexEd classes will only increase the sexual activity thus giving an opportunity for STDs, COVID-19, and any communicable disease to spread. Liberal countries are now suffering with it. Even a kiss could give you herpes.

...if only the reproductive health bill gave such provisions...

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