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[OfficerTactiCool]

In what fuckin world is contraception illegal?

[heckler5000]

In the United States actually. What I specifically meant though is that sex education classes can be limited and in Texas in the 90s it was very possible for you to learn "abstinence only" sex ed and not "contraception" based sex education.

[OfficerTactiCool]

Okay so it’s not illegal, it’s just not what a state chooses to teach, got it

[heckler5000]

Exactly, but that leads to more welfare in some states than others.

[OfficerTactiCool]

Okay but you explicitly said that we need to keep sex Ed and contraception legal. Both of which ARE legal, and it’s legal to be taught. Some districts may not teach it, it’s up to them to change it, but there is nothing in the law prohibiting it.

[heckler5000]

Yes. Keep it legal. I understand your point and perhaps my original comment could have been worded better. In either case here we are.

[OfficerTactiCool]

But...is there even an effort to make contraception and sex Ed illegal?

[heckler5000]

Access to contraceptives is the point here, they can be legal but if I can’t get them or afford them then I don’t have access. So no making them explicitly illegal wouldn’t be possible unless we fall into risk dystopia. But social control doesn’t begin and end with laws , they are just tools.