Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice
Abstract
The article argues that states are constitutionally required to provide comprehensive sex education to minors, as it is essential for their ability to exercise their constitutional rights to privacy, liberty, and autonomy. The denial of adequate sex education constitutes an undue burden on these rights and fails to meet legal standards for rationality and pedagogical interest. The right to receive information under the First Amendment, combined with the liberty right in sexual and reproductive choice under the Fourteenth Amendment, compels recognition of a state duty to provide such education.
Disciplines
Education Law | First Amendment | Law
Recommended Citation
Kelly E. Mannion,
Steubenville and Beyond: The Constitutional Case for Comprehensive Sex Education,
20
Cardozo J. Equal Rts. & Soc. Just.
307
(2014).
Available at:
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cardozoersj/vol20/iss2/3