THE STOPP REPORT

Such incidents are not isolated cases, either. Former Surgeon General M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D., certainly cannot be accused of having a pro-life agenda. Elders did, however, co-author a review of existing studies on such abuse entitled, "Adolescent Pregnancy and Sexual Abuse," that was published in The Journal of the American Medical Association on August 19, 1998. She cited references for the following statements:

• Over half of all infants born to women younger than 18 years are fathered by adult men, with 40 percent of 15-year-old girls having infants with partners aged 20 years or older…

• Research suggests that the younger the mother, the greater the partner age gap, with men on average 4.2 years older than senior high school mothers and 6.7 years older than junior high school mothers…

• Another study reported that fathers are on average 9.8 years older than mothers 11 to 12 years of age, 4.6 years older than mothers 13 to 14 years of age, and 3.7 years older than mothers 15 to 19 years of age.

Life Dynamics, Inc., conducted a telephone survey in which it contacted over 800 Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation facilities nationwide. The caller portrayed a 13-year-old girl who was impregnanted by her 22-year-old boyfriend. She said that she wanted an abortion because she and her boyfriend did not want her parents to find out about their sexual relationship.

The results of this survey are appalling. Even though many of the clinic workers openly acknowledged to the caller that the situation was illegal and that they were required to report it, the vast majority readily agreed to conceal the illegal sexual activity. Some clinic workers even coached the caller on how to avoid detection, circumvent parental involvement and what to say or what not to say when she came into the clinic.

One of the first media outlets to pick up the story about LDI's findings was WTIC-TV in Connecticut. The region was still in shock about the 10-year-old girl who was impregnated by a 75-year-old man. In Texas it is legal to tape a call without the other party's knowledge. WTIC-TV tested the validity of the LDI tapes by calling some of the facilities themselves. WTIC-TV said that the tones heard on the tapes matched those the reporter heard while calling, and that when the reporters asked for the employees heard on the tapes, they found them.

Here's a sample of what WTIC-TV posted on its web site on May 22 from the LDI tapes:

• Bridgeport Planned Parenthood

  Bridgeport Planned Parenthood: "If you're 14, and he's 22, that's illegal."

  Girl: "Well, what do you mean, what could happen?"

  Bridgeport Planned Parenthood: "Nothing, if you don't want to press charges, it's just, it's not legal."

• Norwich Planned Parenthood

  Girl: "It's just we don't want a whole lot of people to know about us. Would he have to sign anything?"

  Norwich Planned Parenthood: "Yeah, but I just...don't, don't talk about his age."

• New London Planned Parenthood

  New London Planned Parenthood: "When you go to Norwich, you're going to want to give them a call. Don't tell them that information."

  Girl: "Then it will be okay?"

  Planned Parenthood: "If you do not say the age of your partner."

  Girl: "Okay."

  Planned Parenthood: "Okay, otherwise there's going to be a lot of stuff going on that you're probably not going to want to have happen."

• Willimantic Planned Parenthood

  Girl: "They won't ask anything about him?"

  Willimantic Planned Parenthood: "I'm not going to...I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that, okay?"

  Girl: "Okay."

  Planned Parenthood: "Don't even bring that up, okay?"

  Girl: "Even if he's taking me there?"

  Planned Parenthood: "No, no, don't even go there, don't even bring it up."

• West Hartford Planned Parenthood

  West Hartford Planned Parenthood: "You just gave me more information than what I needed, okay?"

  Girl: "Oh."

  Planned Parenthood: "Which was not a good thing, okay? The fact that your boyfriend is 22 and the fact you're 14, that makes us mandated, we're mandated reporters. That means we have to report that."

  Girl: "So if you didn't know, it would be okay?"

  Planned Parenthood: "It's not that it's okay, it's just what we don't know, we don't know."

WTIC-TV reported that assistant state's attorney Steve Sedensky heard the tapes and said, "The very fact that a 13-year-old is pregnant is an indication that she's (sic) falls under the definition of abuse, regardless of how old she says the perpetrator is." Chief state's attorney Jack Baily, who also heard the tapes said Planned Parenthood "…should give us a call and we would go over the law with them, because they're in violation of the law right now."

Mark Crutcher intends to alert attorneys general and district attorneys across the country about this criminal activity of Planned Parenthood. He will ask them to conduct their own investigations with an eye toward criminal prosecution. Civil lawsuits are planned as well. LDI also plans to launch a nationwide direct mail campaign to inform 16,000 school districts that by associating themselves with Planned Parenthood and/or by facilitating abortion referrals and contraception distribution, they may be opening themselves up to lawsuits.

Recipients of state and federal funds are required to see to it that the funds are used in accordance with state and federal laws. Planned Parenthood's illegal activity regarding child abuse and statutory rape is clear grounds for such funding to be revoked. In fact, a federal appropriations act for 2002 (PL 107-116) that governs the funding of Planned Parenthood's biggest source of federal funds (Title X) says the following:

SEC. 212. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no provider of services under Title X of the Public Health Service Act shall be exempt from any State law requiring notification or the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest.

Thus, President Bush should immediately order an investigation by his Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson with an eye toward revoking Title X funds from Planned Parenthood. Attorney General John Ashcroft should be asked to investigate whether Planned Parenthood is conspiring on a national level to knowingly encourage its clinics to ignore state laws regarding the mandated reporting of child abuse and statutory rape.

Even on a local level, the LDI study can be used to convince local county politicians to reject federal Title X funds. It happened in McHenry County, Ill., after the incident described above. The county board voted overwhelmingly to turn back its Title X grant so the county would no longer be required by the terms of the grant to provide young girls with birth control drugs without notifying parents and, thus, be contributing to statutory rape as the lawsuit by the abused girl's parents argued.

STOPP congratulates and thanks Mark Crutcher and all those on his staff at LDI for this incredible report. It is available free online. STOPP supporters are urged to get this report into the hands of their local law enforcement officials, child protective services officials, political leaders and school officials. Ask that they prosecute, de-fund, and remove an organization that is not fulfilling its legal obligation to report child abuse and statutory rape.

Virginia apologizes for its eugenic past; PP should do likewise

In May 2002, Virginia Governor Mark R. Warner released a written statement that said, in part, "Today I offer the commonwealth's sincere apology for Virginia's participation in eugenics…the eugenics movement was a shameful effort in which state government never should have been involved." Nearly 8,000 people were forcibly sterilized in Virginia between 1924 and 1979 (Richmond Times-Dispatch, 5/2/02).

Planned Parenthood president Gloria Feldt should follow the lead of Virginia's governor and apologize for Planned Parenthood's eugenic past. Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger, was at the forefront of the eugenics movement that sterilized tens of thousands of Americans. Yet, Planned Parenthood continues to honor her. Why?

Sanger's Birth Control Review was full of articles by Sanger and others advocating eugenics. In fact, in April of 1933, it even republished an article from Germany by Dr. Ernst Rudin titled, "Eugenic Sterilization: An Urgent Need." The philosophies of Sanger and Hitler were very similar.

In "A Plan for Peace" (Birth Control Review, April 1932), Sanger included the following objective: "to apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is already tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring."

If Planned Parenthood no longer holds such views, it should formally apologize for what it did under Sanger's leadership and it should quit giving out awards in her name.

PP Mother's Day e-card

Over three million children were not able to send their mothers a card this past Mother's Day, because they were aborted at Planned Parenthood clinics over the past 25 years. Yet Planned Parenthood had the audacity to run a hypocritical Mother's Day e-card campaign that included the option of making a donation to Planned Parenthood in someone's honor. Planned Parenthood will exploit anything for a buck.

The Planned Parenthood web page for the Mother's Day e-card said, in part, "every child should be wanted and loved." In 2000, Planned Parenthood killed 197,070 children whose mothers obviously neither wanted nor loved them. At an average cost of $350, that is almost $69 million of income from abortion alone in one year. That an organization such as this would try to exploit Mother's Day for donations is revolting.

Two of the four options for the Mother's Day e-card featured Margaret Sanger, PP's infamous founder and proponent of eugenics. One showed Sanger on a courthouse's steps in 1917, and noted that she had been prosecuted for distributing information about birth control. Another e-card showed women lined up in front of Sanger's first birth control clinic in the U.S. in 1916. Obviously PP would like to have people believe that its founder is a role model for mothers.

In addition to performing post-implantation abortion procedures, Planned Parenthood also distributes so-called contraceptive drugs and devices that often kill children by preventing them from implanting in their mothers' wombs. Planned Parenthood has done more to deprive children of their mothers than perhaps any other organization on earth, thus making its very existence an affront to what Mother's Day represents.

IPPF financial statement 2000

International Planned Parenthood Federation has its 2000 Financial Statement posted on the web.Here are some highlights:

• In 2000, IPPF consisted of 139 member Family Planning Associations (FPAs) working in over 180 countries. These FPAs are autonomous and report independently. Therefore, their accounts are not included in the IPPF Financial Report.

• In 2000, IPPF provided almost $59 million in grants to these FPAs and partner organizations. Although some of these groups do actually have the words "planned parenthood" as part of their name, many do not.

• An additional $22 million was provided by IPPF through its regional and central offices for technical and support programs that enhanced the services of all IPPF member associations. Total management and administrative costs were $5.5 million.

• IPPF's total 2000 income was $73,102,000. This is $12.7 million less than its 1999 income, and well below the 2000 total expenditures of $88,195,000.

• Eighty-six percent of the 2000 income was from governments.

The $63,150,000 in government grants are listed below in two categories, unrestricted and restricted. Restricted simply means that the donor has specified for what purposes the money may be used.

Unrestricted	U.S. Dollars
Australia	908,000
Belgium	80,000
Canada	2,697,000
Denmark	9,172,000
Finland	160,000
Germany	2,407,000
Japan	18,210,000
Netherlands	3,183,000
New Zealand	559,000
Norway	5,334,000
Sweden	7,628,000
Switzerland	576,000
United Kingdom	8,121,000
United States	1,500,000
Barbados	4,000
Burkino Faso	2,000
China	80,000
Thailand	2,000
Restricted
Japan	1,000,000
States of Guernsey	37,000
States of Jersey	24,000
United Kingdom	295,000
United States	1,171,000

IPPF also got $8,173,000 in grants from multilaterals and other sources in 2000 as listed below. The biggest donor on this list is Bill Gates. American Life League has an entire web site devoted to educating Bill Gates about population issues.

Donor	U.S. Dollars
Bergstrom Foundation	309,000
Educational Foundation of America	24,000
European Commission	669,000
Ford Foundation	300,000
FPA Switzerland	12,000
Futures Group	1,000
Gates Foundation	2,111,000
Gesellschaft f. Tech. Zusammenarbeit	8,000
Goldman Fund	49,000
Hewlett Foundation	375,000
International Foundation	15,000
Jurzykowski Foundation	13,000
Kleinwort Charitable Trust	46,000
Kreditanstalt fuer Wiederaufbau	234,000
MacArthur Foundation	56,000
Moriah Fund	50,000
National Lottery Charities Board	510,000
N.H. Parker	22,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada	71,000
Rockefeller Foundation	45,000
Summit Foundation	289,000
Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS	70,000
UNFPA	902,000
UNDP Malaysia	29,000
Others	2,063,000

Impact of Mexico City Policy on IPPF

IPPF has been complaining loudly about President George W. Bush's reinstatement of the Mexico City Policy that prohibits U.S. funding to any non-governmental organization (NGO) engaged in performing or actively promoting foreign abortions as a method of family planning (i.e. there are exceptions for rape, incest, life of the mother). In order to get USAID money, organizations must certify that they will not engage in such abortion-related activities, even with their own non-USAID funds. Of course IPPF will not agree to such terms, and thus will lose its USAID. IPPF says that it was informed that it will lose $8 million in funding that it would have received during the period of September 2001 and August 2003.

In addition, IPPF claims that its member family planning associations will lose $18 million. IPPF says it now consists of more than 150 such autonomous, national family planning associations. STOPP called Planned Parenthood's offices in New York to ask whether all these organizations would be following IPPF's lead regarding the Mexico City Policy. STOPP was told that each associate is independent and makes the decision whether or not to sign on to the "global gag rule" themselves.

Some have apparently already decided not to certify and will lose USAID, while others, perhaps, have decided to certify in order to retain their USAID. STOPP recently asked USAID for a current listing of all NGOs that certified under the Mexico City Policy. We wanted to check this list to see how many IPPF affiliates were on it and, thus, would still be getting our tax dollars.

The reply we received from USAID said, in part, "…we do not have a listing of certifying organizations. The management of certifying foreign nongovernmental organizations eligibility to receive family planning assistance under the Mexico City Policy, is done by our Cooperating Agencies (CAs) and Missions, and therefore is highly decentralized." USAID did send STOPP a report that is summarized in the next article. It shows that IPPF affiliates did get our tax money in FY 2000.

Further evidence that IPPF affiliates can get USAID as long as they certify that they will not engage in abortion-related activities is contained in a CRS Congressional Report for Congress (#30830) dated April 2, 2001. Therein it says that on June 4, 1991, Congressman Chris Smith stated in a Committee on Foreign Affairs Hearing that about 400 foreign organizations had signed the Mexico City clauses and that included 44 IPPF affiliates. The report indicates that the main IPPF office in London did not certify, and thus received no money from 1985 until 1993, when Clinton revoked the Mexico City Policy. Furthermore, the IPPF/London constitution barred the central organization from setting service policies for its independent associations.

USAID population assistance

"The Overview of USAID Population Assistance FY 2000" is available online. The Population, Health and Nutrition Information Project (PHNIP), which is funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), prepared this overview report.

This report indicates that total foreign population expenditures by USAID (i.e. U.S. taxpayers) in FY 2000 were $352,710,000. Fifty-eight developing countries received direct funding which supported technical assistance or funded local groups. Twenty-four other countries received more limited assistance which included contraceptive shipments, research on family planning methods, and/or support for local family planning associations through International Planned Parenthood.

The following is a breakdown of how the $353 million was spent by activity:

Family planning services delivery	35%
Contraceptives/logistics	16%
Management	11%
Research	10%
Policy/evaluation	6%
Training	5%
Information, education, communications	4%
Other	13%

Of the $353 million total, only $215,950,000, or 61%, could be matched to the host institution to which it went. A note on page 5 says, "Current data collection methods do not allow determination of host institution for all types of expenditures." That is pathetic. The U.S. taxpayers are left in the dark as to where over $137 million of their hard-earned money went.

In any case, USAID does know that 6% of what it did track went to IPPF affiliates in 2000. That amount would be $12,957,000. Other private nonprofits got 42% and government agencies got 31%. Remember that the Mexico City Policy applies only to non-governmental organizations. Thus, governments can get USAID even if they engage in abortion related activities. The remainder went to other hosts such as universities (5%), private for-profits (8%), international agencies (1%) and parastatal organizations (7%).

This report has a table on page A-5 that summarizes the contraceptives that USAID shipped that year for overseas population control programs. The condom shipments include those for HIV/AIDS prevention. The totals reported are in the chart below and the dollar value includes shipping.

Method	Quantity	Value
Condom	308,706,000	$20,171,844
IUD	1,243,200	1,628,320
Oral (cycles)	74,640,000	18,163,713
Vaginal foaming tablets	8,961,600	1,187,378
Implant	63,750	1,612,012
Injectables	9,068,400	9,504,017
Female condom	168,000	147,383
Total		$52,414,667

This $52.4 million represents only a part of the $353 million spent by USAID for population control in 2000. Therefore, STOPP speculates that the above data represents only those centrally procured contraceptives that USAID shipped, and does not include any additional contraceptives USAID recipients may have procured locally using money from a USAID grant. The report, however, is not clear on this point.

When STOPP asked for clarification about some things in the report, we were given a message from USAID via PHNIP that said, in part, "We do not have the time or funds to conduct special data analyses for you or to research and answer further questions for you." Perhaps USAID is too busy trying to find out to whom it gave the $137 million it couldn't account for on page 5 of the report.

A May 2000 Government Accounting Office audit of IPPF, initiated by Senator Jesse Helms, caught IPPF illegally funneling $700,000 of USAID funds to groups that engage in abortion-related activities. How can USAID be sure that the $137 million wasn't used illegally as well, if it doesn't even know to whom it was given? STOPP has relayed its current findings to Senator Helms's office.

What the USAID report does show quite clearly is that an enormous amount of U.S. taxpayer money is going toward providing foreign countries with sometimes-abortifacient contraception (IUD, the pill, implants, injections). Thus, USAID for population assistance pays for drugs and devices that kill human beings before implantation. This, in itself, is a good reason to end such population control programs immediately. But even paying for the non-abortifacient contraception, such as the condoms, is objectionable. Contraception is immoral and offends God. The U.S. has no right to use our tax dollars to promote such an offense and we have an obligation to keep telling our representatives that we want them to eliminate such programs.

Study shows legalized abortion increased STDs

A new study from George Mason University shows that the legalization of abortion led to an increase in sexually transmitted diseases. Thomas Stratmann, Ph.D., of the Department of Economics, and Jonathan Klick, Ph.D., of the School of Law, authored the study entitled, "The Effect of Abortion Legalization on Sexual Behavior: Evidence from Sexually Transmitted Diseases." It is available for free download. Here is the conclusion:

The legalization of abortion in the United States led to many changes socially, economically, and medically. While much recent attention has focused on its effect with respect to the reduction in unwanted pregnancies, there has been little work that examines the consequences of the increase in sexual activity that likely followed legalization.

We investigate the natural experiment provided by state abortion legalization laws to determine the effect of changing the expected costs of sexual activity on the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases. Changes in abortion laws present a natural experiment since a number of states legalized abortion in various years prior to the national legalization that came with Roe v. Wade in 1973. Legalizing abortion provided extra incentives to engage in risky sexual activity.

Legalization led to a lowering of the cost of abortions and this has a qualitatively and quantitatively important effect on STD rates. The estimation results show that abortion legalization led to an increase of sexually transmitted diseases; this result is robust to a wide range of time periods and covariates and is constant across the sexes. The point estimates indicate that legalization caused an increase of gonorrhea by up to thirty-five percent and an increase in syphilis by up to thirty-eight percent.

In addition to providing further evidence that sexual behavior responds to economic incentives, the results provide an insight into the epidemiology of gonorrhea and syphilis specifically, and, perhaps, STDs in general. Our results attribute a large increase in gonorrhea and syphilis rates to changing sexual behavior, which was induced by abortion law changes. This increase resulted in additional expenditures for the treatment of gonorrhea and syphilis on the order of $400 million per year. If a similar abortion effect exists for other STDs which we could not examine due to data limitations, additional treatment expenditures might amount to more than $5 billion annually.

What is clear, however, is that CDC and medical authorities in general have not considered this abortion effect on STD infection rates, nor that changes in institutions can cause changes in the relative prices faced by individuals. Instead, the medical community tends to attribute the changes in STD rates to fluctuating social mores, changing demographics, and changing diagnosis patterns. As indicated by our results, ignoring the effects of changing incentives precludes an accurate understanding and modeling of this epidemiological phenomenon.

Wheatfield, N.Y. denies PP property tax-exempt status

Even though Planned Parenthood may have tax-exempt status on the federal and state level, does that necessarily mean that it should be given tax-exempt status for local real estate tax purposes? Apparently not, if we look at what is going on in the town of Wheatfield, N.Y.

As we told you in the June 2002 issue of the Ryan Report, Wheatfield is the site of a new Planned Parenthood of Niagara County (PPNC) abortion clinic. The following information and quotes are from an article by Liz Zilbauer that appeared in the Niagara/Wheatfield Tribune on May 9, 2002. Zilbauer interviewed STOPP's national director, Ed Szymkowiak, in April when he was in the region to give a talk. The first part of the article summarized this talk and the last part revealed that PPNC is suing the town of Wheatfield because its assessment board of reviews denied tax-exempt status to the abortion clinic property.

The case is now in State Supreme Court. PPNC is arguing that it has federal and state tax-exempt status as well as non-profit status and that the clinic is an educational facility because it gives out pamphlets and provides counseling.

But Town Attorney Robert O'Toole has said that Wheatfield is "vigorously opposing" PPNC's effort to obtain a property tax exemption. "It's important people understand that [Planned Parenthood of Niagara County] bills insurance companies, and patients themselves, the same way that every other medical provider bills. Why should they get an advantage over others involved in the same business?"

O'Toole also pointed to PPNC's 2000 IRS Form 990 as proof that PPNC'seducational activities are too insignificant to qualify it for a tax exemption.

He noted that PPNC spent $1.4 million on clinical services while only $169,960 was spent on education. Town officials are confident that they will win the case. If they don't win, local taxpayers will pick up the tab for the tax exemption.

STOPP urges all supporters to investigate the current local property tax status of any Planned Parenthood facility in their region. If PP actually owns the facility (as opposed to just renting) and it has been given property tax exemption, then complain loudly to local officials, making the same point that O'Toole did in Wheatfield. IRS Form 990s for PP affiliates are available for free download from Guidestar. Property tax exemptions are just another way for PP to pick the taxpayers' pockets.

Eucharistic procession to Planned Parenthood

On Monday May 13, Fr. Samuel Martin, a priest of the Diocese of La Crosse, led a group of high school students and local pro-lifers in a Eucharistic prayer vigil in front of the Planned Parenthood facility in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. This prayerful event was sponsored by the Servants of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

The event began at 3 PM with the Divine Mercy Chaplet. Shortly after 3 PM, a Knights of Columbus honor guard and altar boys with bells and incense preceded Fr. Martin as he carried Jesus in the monstrance to the scene. Along the city block, close to 40 of the faithful gathered on their knees to welcome Christ the King and to follow Him into spiritual battle. On the sidewalk in front of the Planned Parenthood, a small altarfor exposition was placed by a large statue of Our Lady of Fatima, who first appeared on the same day in 1917.

"Our Lady of Fatima called the Church to pray for the conversion of sinners and to make acts of reparation for sin. This was a fitting day to honor the Blessed Mother's request and pray for the conversion of those involved in the crime of abortion," said Suzanne Abdalla, member of the Servants of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament was followed by Benediction accompanied by Latin hymns and a procession around the Planned Parenthood building. The vigil concluded with the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

"It was a great sign of hope to have Christ the Lord of Life with youth and families present at this site that hands out deadly abortifacients and refers for surgical abortion. Today the light of Jesus' love was brought to this place of darkness," said Tricia McKenna, another Servant. "Jesus is always and everywhere the King of Kings, and His presence alone accomplishes a total victory of love and life over death and darkness."

The Servants of Our Lady of Guadalupe is a pro-life apostolate working with the permission of Bishop Raymond Burke of the diocese of La Crosse. Fr. Martin is chaplain of the Servants and chaplain at Assumption High School in Wisconsin Rapids.

STOPP received the above report from The Servants of Our Lady of Guadalupe. We thank them for this wonderful example of how to oppose Planned Parenthood in a peaceful and prayerful way, and we hope readers will share this story with their own pastors and ask those pastors to lead a similar event. May God bless the Servants of Our Lady of Guadalupe in their battle against the evil of Planned Parenthood!

STOPP joins Richmond, Va. protest of PP and school superintendent

STOPP's national director, Ed Szymkowiak, joined regional pro-lifers in a protest of the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood's Annual Dinner on May 22 at the Capital Club in Richmond, Va. The superintendent of Richmond schools, Albert J. Williams, was the keynote speaker at the dinner.

The protestors spread out on the adjacent streets holding large signs and passing out literature about Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger.

Dennis Green of Life and Liberty Ministries, a regional pro-life group, organized the protest. Life and Liberty Ministries reports that the Richmond Planned Parenthood alone kills approximately 23 babies per week. Life and Liberty Ministries pickets the PP abortion facility and another abortionist on a regular basis.

Ed's message to regional and national media was that it was appalling that the superintendent of a large city public school system gave the keynote address at a Planned Parenthood function. "Not only does Planned Parenthood kill future students, but it also teaches children perverted sex education that denies the truth and meaning of human sexuality," Ed said.

"Obviously there is a close association between Williams and Planned Parenthood," Ed continued. "This should be a wake-up call to area parents to find out just what kind of sex-ed programs he has allowed in Richmond schools. STOPP has a book called Parent Power that will guide parents through the process of getting Planned Parenthood-style sex-ed courses thrown out of their school system."

Parent Power, by STOPP's founder, Jim Sedlak, is available for free download, or for $5.95 by calling 866-LET-LIVE.

Life and Liberty Ministries also conducts statewide "Show of Truth Tours" in Virginia. Contact them at 804-863-0843 for more information, or visit their new web site.

This month's action items

• To schedule a talk in your community by Jim or Ed, call 540-659-4171.
• Use the results of the LDI study to demand local district attorneys investigate PP facilitating child abuse and statutory rape (pp 1-2).
• Find out if the PP is getting a property tax exemption from your local government. If so, work to remove the exemption (pp 6-7).
• Send a tax-deductible donation today to help us keep fighting PP and sex education.
• Pray that God will lead us in our work and that we will always have the courage to do His will.

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