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Bill Would Teach Kids about Abortion and How to Access Care

by CC News
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Buffy Wicks introduces AB 598 to teach abortion

Today, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks announced AB 598 that would make California a reproductive freedom state for all and must include comprehensive education for our students about all pregnancy outcomes.

According to Wicks, AB 598, will update sex ed requirements to ensure that the state not only educate students about abortion, but about how to access this care.

“This year I am doing a bill to ensure that our young people have not just education around reproductive care, but they know how to access such care,” said Wicks. “My bill expands our sexual reproductive education requirements to ensure our young people have knowledge, and know where to, and how to receive abortion care along with contraception care and all the other care that our young people deserve to know about it.”

She continued.

“It also ensures that our school districts are required to administer the California Healthy Survey test that includes a test around reproductive care and contraceptive care in that healthy survey so that we policymakers and educators can have data around what our young people are experiencing and how they understand these issues, and we can create the appropriate curriculum for them,” stated Wicks.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 598, as amended, Wicks. School Sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education: school climate and safety: California Healthy Kids Survey.
Existing law, the California Healthy Youth Act, requires school districts to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education, as specified. Under the act, this instruction includes, among other things, information about local resources related to sexual and reproductive health, pregnancy prevention and care, and assistance with sexual assault and intimate partner violence, and information about pregnancy, including parenting, adoption, and abortion, as provided.
This bill would revise the information included in this instruction related to local resources and abortion, as specified, and would require that pupils receive a physical or digital resource detailing certain local resources upon completion of the applicable instruction. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
Existing law authorizes anonymous, voluntary, and confidential research and evaluation tools to measure pupils’ health behaviors and risks, including tests, questionnaires, and surveys containing age-appropriate questions about the pupil’s attitudes concerning or practices relating to sex, to be administered to any pupil in grades 7 to 12, inclusive. The California Healthy Kids Survey is an anonymous, confidential survey of school climate and safety, student wellness, and youth resiliency.
This bill would declare the Legislature’s intent to enact subsequent legislation that would require school districts to participate in the State Department of Education to ensure the California Healthy Kids Survey, an anonymous, confidential survey of school climate and safety, student wellness, and youth resiliency, and include a module on Survey includes questions about sexual and reproductive health care as a core survey module. module for pupils in grades 7, 9, and 11. The bill would require each school district serving pupils in any of grades 5, 7, 9, or 11 to administer the California Healthy Kids Survey to pupils in the applicable grades, as provided. By imposing new requirements on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

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1 comment

Jack Toffmore March 13, 2023 - 6:45 pm

Dems sure do love to kill babies. It’s almost like a religious obligation the way they evangelize it.

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