The district attorney in Juneau County, Wisconsin, has issued a letter to five public school districts warning that if teachers include contraceptives in their sex ed curriculum (as required by state law), they could be subject to arrest and prosecution for contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
The D.A.’s name is Scott Southworth, and he is (of course) a Republican. He argues that teaching teenagers about contraceptives will encourage them to have sex, and encouraging teenagers to have sex is criminal offense.
The D.A. is supported by Pro-Life Wisconsin, which is naturally far more interested in discouraging/demonizing sexual activity than actually lowering the number of abortions, which contraceptive education would do.
Personally, I can only hope that incidents like this only make it more clear to the voting public how out of touch and downright scary the Republican party’s puritanical base has become.
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