Just the Facts

The Kansas Abstinence Education Program approaches sexuality education from a preventive health model. While contraceptive technologies such as condoms and birth control pills provide some protection against pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, only abstinence until marriage can be 100 percent effective against these possibilities. Abstinence before marriage is the only preventive health model that insures risk elimination if properly practiced. Contraception provides risk reduction only, and that reduction varies widely depending on whether it is for pregnancy or disease and whether contraceptive techniques are consistently and correctly used.