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In this issue:
- ‘Comprehensive, medically accurate sex ed’
- Planned Parenthood’s sex ed double talk
- A conflict of interests
- Planned Parenthood suffers major loss in Missouri
- Texans stand to protect children from Planned Parenthood
- Planned Parenthood abortions in Wisconsin – on hold
‘Comprehensive, medically accurate sex ed’
In any given week, if one were to do an internet search for “Planned Parenthood,” one would likely come across some story about PP pushing what it calls “comprehensive, medically accurate sex ed.” In past Wednesday STOPP Reports, we have given you glimpses into what Planned Parenthood feels such a sex ed program should entail:
As repulsive and unconscionable as all of this is, it is hard to believe that Planned Parenthood actively seeks to mandate this kind of program in all K-12 schools. Even more unbelievable, though, is that there are cities and school districts that are actually buying into it.
Because of this, it is clear that exposing the scandalous and pornographic nature of Planned Parenthood’s sex ed programs alone may not be sufficient to convince some people of the need to keep these programs away from our children.
In this edition of the Wednesday STOPP Report, we will go into more detail about other reasons why no community should ever tolerate Planned Parenthood’s sex ed program.
Planned Parenthood’s sex ed double talk
To the average person, a program that claims to be “comprehensive” and “medically accurate” sounds very acceptable, and in fact, probably very good. At face value it is almost understandable that school boards and city councils would be taken in by a program described like this. However, the problem is that when Planned Parenthood claims that its sex ed programs will be “comprehensive” and “medically accurate,” it is lying, plain and simple.
A very common example of Planned Parenthood’s sex ed hypocrisy is how it teaches children about “safer sex.” According to Planned Parenthood, “safer sex” is a “relative term; it is anything you decide to do to lower the risk of becoming infected or infecting someone else, especially with dangerous infections, such as HIV.” But it then turns around and rejects procedures such as circumcision that have been shown to drastically decrease HIV transmission. Why? According to Planned Parenthood, it is because “condom use is, by far, a superior safer sex strategy.” Obviously, that can’t be the real reason. If that were PP’s rationale, then it would only advocate for abstinence before marriage and fidelity to one’s spouse afterward, as it is the most “superior safer sex strategy” since it is 100 percent effective. We contend that the real reason Planned Parenthood doesn’t support circumcision is simply because it isn’t one of the services PP sells.
Well, at least Planned Parenthood is giving all the facts about its products and services, right? Outrageously, the answer again is no. In fact, a recent article reported that a spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region said that “emphasizing condom failure rates confuses adolescents.” In other words, Planned Parenthood wants to teach our children to use condoms, but doesn’t feel it is appropriate to teach them the fact that condoms fail 15 percent of the time. That doesn’t sound very “comprehensive,” does it?
But that’s not all. Often in Planned Parenthood’s literature and presentations, it specifically omits the fact that nearly all contraceptive drugs and devices can contribute to the death of a developing child in their mother’s womb. Certainly this would prove the program to be far from “comprehensive”; but what is worse is that when Planned Parenthood is specifically asked, it still denies the abortifacient nature of its products. This is not just medically inaccurate but is simply an outright lie.
Not only is Planned Parenthood’s sex ed program rife with sin and disorder, but even PP itself doesn’t live up to its claim of providing “comprehensive, medically accurate sex ed” to our children.
A conflict of interest
As we were writing this week’s Wednesday STOPP Report on the reasons why Planned Parenthood should never be allowed to teach its sex ed programs to our children, we providentially came across an article that makes the case so well that we honestly could not have said it any better. The following article was written by Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D. Morse is the author of Smart Sex: Finding Life-long Love in a Hook-up World. She regularly updates her own blog.
With her gracious permission we gladly provide her article for you to learn more about Planned Parenthood’s devious sex ed scheme:
Get the Government Out of Sex Ed
By Jennifer Roback Morse
If you need an operation and the doctor tells you that overall, seven-eighths of patients have a successful outcome, you might think that was a pretty good deal. But suppose the operation failed. While you’re in the recovery room, the doctor tells you, “Oh, by the way, for people like you, the operation only succeeds 30 percent of the time. But we’ll sell you the solution to the botched operation.” You’d be furious. You’d sue that doctor for malpractice if you didn’t punch him first.
Yet this is precisely the situation Congress supports by funding Planned Parenthood and its allies to provide “comprehensive sex education” in secondary schools.
This is no exaggeration. Look at contraceptive failure rates, using Planned Parenthood’s own data. Two studies, (listed below, with web site addresses) use this definition of contraceptive failure: the percentage of women who experience a pregnancy at the end of one year of using a particular contraceptive method. Somewhere between 12 percent and 13 percent of all contracepting women experienced a pregnancy within a year. In other words, about seven-eighths of women use contraceptives successfully. Two of the most commonly used and widely promoted methods are oral contraceptives and the male condom. Of all women using the pill for one year, somewhere around 8 percent will experience a pregnancy. Between 14 percent and 15 percent of women who use the condom will become pregnant within a year.
But these statistics, while technically correct, don’t tell the whole story, not by a long shot. These are the “overall” statistics that our hypothetical doctor used in our opening story. The “for people like you” statistics paint a very different picture. These studies break down the population into age groups, income levels, marital status and race.
A poor cohabiting teenager using the pill has a failure rate of 48.4 percent. You read that correctly: nearly half of poor cohabiting teenagers get pregnant during their first year using the pill. If she kicked her boyfriend out of the house, or if she married him, her probability of pregnancy drops to 12.9 percent. At the other extreme, a middle-aged, middle-class married woman has a 3 percent chance of getting pregnant after a year on the pill. Over 70 percent of poor, cohabiting teenagers using condoms will be pregnant within a year. By contrast, the middle-aged, middle-class married woman has a 6 percent chance of pregnancy after a year of condom use.
These figures cast new light on the debate over contraception education. The commonly quoted failure rates of 8 percent for the pill and 15 percent for the condom are inflated by the highly successful use by middle-aged, middle-class married couples. Yet, the government promotes contraception most heavily among the young, the poor and the single. The “overall failure rates” are simply not relevant to this target population.
Planned Parenthood and its allies in the sex education business have had conniptions over federal funding for abstinence education. But at least abstinence actually works. If you don’t have sex, you won’t get pregnant. It works every time.
With contraception, we can absolutely predict that some sexual encounters will result in pregnancy. The young, the poor and the unmarried are the most likely to experience a contraceptive failure. For these groups, pregnancy is not a rare accident, but highly likely. When the inevitable pregnancy occurs, guess who is ready to help solve her problem? That’s right: Planned Parenthood will sell her an abortion. The same people who teach sex education, which increases the demand for purchasing contraception, also sell the “solution” to contraceptive failure, which is abortion. Yet the federal government spends about $12 on contraceptive-related programs to every $1 spent on abstinence education.
We don’t give federal grants to tobacco companies to teach students “low-risk” forms of smoking on the grounds that “kids are going to smoke anyway.” We shouldn’t be giving federal grants to groups that sell contraception, to teach kids to use contraception.
It is time for the federal government to get out of the sex education business once and for all.
"Contraceptive Failure in the First Two Years of Use: Differences Across Socioeconomic Subgroups,” Nalini Ranjit, Akinrinola Bankole, Jacqueline E. Darroch and Susheela Singh. Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 33, No. 1. January/February 2001, pp. 19-27.
“Contraceptive Failure Rates: New Estimates From the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth,” Haisahn Fu, Jacqueline E. Darroch, Taylor Haas, and Nalini Ranjit, Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 31, No. 2. March/April 1999, pp. 56-63.
Make sure to note that the two studies Morse cites in her article are studies that Planned Parenthood itself commissioned to be done. It is no secret to Planned Parenthood how necessary it is for kids to be engaged in sexual lifestyles to keep up its profit margins. Now it is time to make our communities aware of this same fact.
Planned Parenthood suffers major loss in Missouri
Media outlets are reporting that Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri is reeling from the developments of the last week and is desperately trying to figure out what to do next.
STOPP has pointed out for years that the foundation of Planned Parenthood’s birth control and abortion business is its sex education programs. The programs result in more kids having sex and therefore using more of Planned Parenthood’s products and having more abortions.
Last week, Governor Matt Blunt of Missouri signed into law House Bill 1055. Many of our readers may have heard of this news already in articles that reported the new restrictions on facilities that perform abortions. However, HB 1055 not only classifies abortion facilities as ambulatory surgical centers but, more importantly, it bans people affiliated with abortion providers from teaching or supplying materials for public school sex ed courses.
Section 7 of the act states specifically: “No school district or charter school, or its personnel or agents, shall provide abortion services, or permit a person or entity to offer, sponsor, or furnish in any manner any course materials or instruction relating to human sexuality or sexually transmitted diseases to its students if such person or entity is a provider of abortion services.”
This provision will keep Planned Parenthood out of the school districts in Missouri. It was passed by the legislature and signed by the governor as a result of pro-life Missourians making the case that Planned Parenthood has a clear conflict of interest when it comes to presenting its sex ed programs because it would have a vested monetary concern in selling students the products and services it is instructing them about.
The fruits of this vested interest can be seen in last week’s report on the correlation between Planned Parenthood’s new facilities in Minnesota and the increase in abortions across the state.
We congratulate the people of Missouri for recognizing the fact that Planned Parenthood’s sex ed programs are nothing more than marketing programs and for putting forth measures to protect their children from PP’s manipulative operations. We encourage STOPPers in every city, county and state to get similar language added to their own statutes. It is time we kept Planned Parenthood away from our children.
Texans stand to protect children from Planned Parenthood
It is that time of year when Planned Parenthood of North Texas will put on its annual Teen Savvy Conference. Teen Savvy is a yearly event that seeks to indoctrinate children as young as 11 years of age into an oversexualized lifestyle under the guise of aiding their “transition into adulthood.”
However, Planned Parenthood’s conference will not run unopposed. The Dallas-area Coalition Against Planned Parenthood will be standing for the truth and educating their community about Planned Parenthood and its evil operations. Last year STOPP had the opportunity to join D-CAPP in this peaceful, prayerful presence.
You may remember our report on the tremendous fruits of this action:
When she found out that Planned Parenthood was presenting at the conference, one mother told protesters that she was shocked because she was told it was an “abstinence rally” and promptly took her daughter home.
Two vans full of children from a local church were spared from Planned Parenthood’s manipulation when their youth pastor spoke with protesters. Again he was told that the conference was intended to teach abstinence and said he had no idea of PP’s involvement.
Two local pastors saw the protest and asked for more information about Planned Parenthood because they said they previously knew nothing about the organization.
There were countless other blessings from the prayers and efforts of D-CAPP members with whom we stood last year to oppose Planned Parenthood’s attack on our children.
We encourage everyone in the area to join concerned parents and other citizens as they stand for truth at Planned Parenthood’s annual presentation of their sinful sex education program. Teen Savvy is being held at T.W. Browne Middle School at 3333 Sprague Dr. in Dallas. There will be a peaceful picket of this event beginning at 8:30 a.m. Signs will be provided. Contact JoAnn Murray at joannmurray@verizon.net to get involved.
For all of our readers who are not able to attend the event, please remember to pray for the success of the good people of Dallas and to offer thanksgiving for their work to expose Planned Parenthood and protect the purity of the children of their community.
Planned Parenthood abortions in Wisconsin – on hold
Pro-Life Wisconsin, an American Life League associate group, has reported to STOPP that the Planned Parenthood abortion facilities in Appleton and Milwaukee have stopped doing abortions – at least for now.
Local protesters have noted the lack of abortions. Planned Parenthood has made no official announcement – other than saying it is “restructuring” its operations. We do not know what that means, but suspect PP is having trouble with getting prospective staff to participate in its abortion business.
It is not expected that this will be a permanent condition, but for now we ask that you all praise God that, as of right now, no children are being killed by surgical or medical abortions at any Planned Parenthood facilities in Wisconsin. (Note that although the abortion facility in Madison is owned by PP, it is rented to an independent abortionist who actually runs the abortion business privately.)
