Alabama schools would have to make major changes to sex ed under refiled bill

An Alabama senator is refiling a bill that would change some provisions to sexual education in public K-12 schools.

SB 3 , sponsored by Sen. Shay Shelnutt, R-Trussville, would require schools to “exclusively teach sexual risk avoidance and encourage abstinence from all sexual activity.”

Sexual risk avoidance is defined in the bill as “primary prevention approach to sex education that seeks to achieve the most favorable health outcomes for all Alabama youth.”

The bill prohibits schools from “providing a referral to or information about how to acquire an abortion;” “misrepresenting the efficacy of or demonstrating the use of contraceptives,” and “using images that are sexually explicit.”

A message seeking comment was left with Sen. Shelnutt Thursday. Shelnutt filed a similar bill in t