“I don’t think you ever have to accept anything. You can use your voice to make change no matter where you are.”
Lily remembered the sex education she had in high school. “We went over the human body,” Lily said. “We didn’t really learn about anything involving sex. We just learned about sexually transmitted diseases and that’s it.” To Lily, the abstinence-only curriculum doesn’t make sense. Not only does Tennessee have a high teenage pregnancy rate, but. Lily said it’s trying to solve a problem that she doesn’t see as an actual problem: teenagers having sex. “They will have sex,” she said.
Because all four of the founders of Teens for Reproductive Rights are 17 years old, they haven’t voted yet. Though they look forward to doing so in the Novemberelections, they don’t see their age as a reason to be complacent — they see it as a reason to take action. “It’s important for us since we can’t vote yet,” Emma Rose said. “The biggest way we can let our voices be heard is through activism and events and platforms.
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