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[–] Newtonip ago 

I just read the original paper in question and this article is quite selective in their quoting. Also, it absolutely does not say sex-ed classes caused more teen pregnancy, it rather took aim at a particular government program.

If the author's suspicions are correct, then that program was a waste of money and easy access to contraceptives to teens increases teen pregnancy rates. They do not say that comprehensive sex-ed doesn't work.

For starters, these are not cuts to sex-ed but to a particular project, the Teen Pregnancy Strategy:

To tackle the problem, in 1999, the U.K. Government launched the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy, a major programme aimed at halving the under-18 conception rate in England by the year 2010.

This was an initiative to expand access to information and give easy access to contraceptives to teenagers:

The cornerstones of the Strategy were expanding access to sexual and relationships education (SRE) and contraception for young people.

The access to information part consists of (not all of it is sex-ed classes):

Typical projects included employing local teenage pregnancy co-ordinators, opening sexual health clinics aimed at young people (often based in schools), and increasing SRE provision within schools.

Teens had sex-ed before the project and still had sex-ed after the cuts, this was something that came on top of that.

The authors seem to suspect that the giving teens the easy access to contraceptives is what was not helping:

For instance, increased contraceptive use has been argued to increase sexual-risk taking

There are other factors that could affect the fall of teen pregnancy and the authors recognize as such:

It is well-established that socio-economic factors such as poverty, economic welfare and education are significant determinants of teen conception rates and changes in such factors may be obscuring the impact of expenditure cuts at an aggregate level.

Their beef is with throwing money at this particular program not sex-ed in general. They cite another study that concluded that improvements in sexual education in schools reduced pregnancy rates:

For example, Girma and Paton (2014) demonstrate that improvements in school education played a significant role in the fall in conception rates up to 2012.

In other studies, replacing comprehensive sex-ed with abstinence only sex-ed has correlated with increases in teen pregnancy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3194801/