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Social media is a source of information and education, especially on topics that are aren’t being taught elsewhere—like sex education.
…At least it could be if social media companies stopped restricting access to sex education and sex positive content.

Only 24 states and D.C. require that public schools teach any sex education and only 20 states require that “if provided, sex and/or HIV education must be medically, factually or technically accurate.”

Unicef’s research shows that the global maternal mortality rate, the rate of deaths resulting from complications from pregnancy or childbirth, has declined by 44% between 1990 and 2015, and yet the maternal mortality rate in the United States has increased.