[SVMc]

I think I'm addressing this exact issue in the "abortion stance" thread. But just in case you want any stats to back up education on contraception in schools here goes:

The United States not only holds the higest teen pregnancy rate of any developed nation, it has double the teen pregnancy rate of any industrialized nation. (Victor C. Strasburg, MD, New Mexico School of Medicine). One third of teen pregnancies end in abortion (The Alan Guttmacher Institute), teen pregnancy accounts for the highest rate of abortions, 54% of women having an abortion stated that they did use contraception. It has been shown that the majority of these women were not using contraception effectively, or were using contraception tactics like the rythm method that is highly ineffective.

Teenagers in the United States are NOT more sexually acitve and are NOT sexually active at a younger age than teenagers in Canada, Sweeden or Britain (some of the lower teen pregnancy rates), the difference is that in the United States, sex and birth control are not talked about openly in schools resulting in a high amount of teens who do not know how to effectively use birth control.

Education teenagers about contraception does NOT lower the age at which teenagers become sexually active, or increase the amount of teens who choose to become sexually active. Over 250 studies agree on this point (National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, CNN.com, ETR Associates in Scotts Valley, California, National Center for Health Statistics - and there are more).

One more, the effectiveness of having better access to sex-education over the last 10 years has reduces the rate of unwanted teen pregnancies by 28%, the overall abortion rate dropped by 43% in the same time period and the amount of teen pregnancies ending in abortion dropped from 46% to 33%. And targeting at risk youth, in economic emproverished areas dropped the teen pregnancy rate among black teens by 32%. (The Alan Guttmacher Institute)