Year: 2014
Resolution Number: 53
Action Taken: Referred to the Board
Status: Complete
Author(s): Fariah Ahmad
Sponsor: Fariah Ahmad, Alyssa Cowell, Gunjan Malhotra, Powell Graham, and Amanda Truer
On behalf of:
Committee: D (Public Health)
Resolved Section(s):
RESOLVED: That MSMS and the AMA support and advocate for “medically accurate” information in sex education programs to be defined as information that satisfies all of the following:1. Relevant to informed decision-making based on the weight of scientific evidence2. Consistent with generally recognized scientific theory, conducted under accepted scientific methods3. Published in peer-reviewed journals with findings replicated by subsequent studies4. Recognized as accurate, objective, and complete information by mainstream professional organizations such as AMA, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Public Health Association, and American Academy of Pediatrics; government agencies such as Center for Disease Control, Food and Drug Administration, and National Institutes of Health; and, scientific advisory groups such as the Institute of Medicine and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That MSMS and the AMA oppose sex education programs that deliberately withhold information that is needed to protect individual and public health well-being and that is needed to facilitate sexual safety.
RESOLVED: That MSMS and the AMA support and advocate for “medically accurate” information in sex education programs to be defined as information that satisfies all of the following:1. Relevant to informed decision-making based on the weight of scientific evidence2. Consistent with generally recognized scientific theory, conducted under accepted scientific methods3. Published in peer-reviewed journals with findings replicated by subsequent studies4. Recognized as accurate, objective, and complete information by mainstream professional organizations such as AMA, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Public Health Association, and American Academy of Pediatrics; government agencies such as Center for Disease Control, Food and Drug Administration, and National Institutes of Health; and, scientific advisory groups such as the Institute of Medicine and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices; and be it furtherRESOLVED: That MSMS and the AMA oppose sex education programs that deliberately withhold information that is needed to protect individual and public health well-being and that is needed to facilitate sexual safety.
Fiscal Note: NULL
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