Namkung EH, Valentine A, Warner L, et al. - Researchers here examined receipt of formal sex education as a potential mechanism that may explain the observed correlations between disability status and contraceptive use among young women with disabilities. For this analysis, data from 2,861 women aged 18 to 24 years, who experienced voluntary first sexual intercourse with a male partner, were retrieved from the 2011-17 National Survey of Family Growth. Relative to nondisabled women, women with cognitive disabilities less frequently described receipt of instruction in each of six discrete formal sex education topics and received instruction on a fewer number of topics overall, prior to first voluntary intercourse. As young adult women with and without disabilities showed positive association between formal sex education and contraceptive use, ongoing efforts are required to increase access to formal sex education. They emphasize providing special attention to those women with cognitive disabilities.