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Kathrin F. Stranger Hall and David W. Hall are both professors at the University of Georgia. Stranger-Hall teaches biology, which goes hand in hand with Hall who teaches genetics. These two brains together produce intelligent conversation about sexual education. In their article, “Abstinence-Only Education and Teen Pregnancy Rates: Why We Need Comprehensive Sex Education in the U.S”, they take a stand against the current abstinence-only based education in America. They provide many statistics as to why the current education is ineffective and a solution on how to fix it. This solution is called “comprehensive” sexual education, which includes “information about contraception [and] safer-sex practices” (1). Comprehensive sex education falls

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