Posted on 08/18/2017 9:14:50 AM PDT by Morgana
Parents and pro-life advocates urged a Pennsylvania school board Wednesday to reject a proposal to put a Planned Parenthood-run facility inside Reading High School.
The Reading Eagle reports the facility would not do abortions at the high school, but Planned Parenthood staffers would offer students sex education, counseling about reproductive health and referrals to their abortion facility in Reading.
Pro-lifers with Students for Life, the Pennsylvania Family Institute and others have been joining local parents to protest the proposal in the past few months. On June 21, about 80 pro-life advocates stood outside the Reading School District to urge the school board to oppose the Planned Parenthood-run center.
The center was proposed by the sex education advocacy group AccessMatters in May 2017 and would be facilitated by Planned Parenthood Keystone. The center would be located inside the high school and would give the abortion chain direct access to young, vulnerable students.
In addition, the center would be paid for by tax dollars, according to the Pennsylvania Family Institute.
According to the local news report:
Those who support the program advocate helping young people in Reading make more informed decisions about their own reproductive health, while those opposed bemoan the possibility of a Planned Parenthood staff member interacting with students.
The argument centers largely on abortion rights, though the program itself does not address that issue and simply seeks to provide optional counseling services to students with questions about reproductive health. For all services besides counseling and condoms, students would receive referrals to the Planned Parenthood location in Reading.
… AccessMatters, an organization based in Philadelphia, would oversee the program while Planned Parenthood Keystone would manage daily operations and assign a staff member to hold office hours in the school. Funding would come from the Pennsylvania Department of Health at no cost to the district.
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The school board is scheduled to vote on the proposal on Aug. 23.
Students for Life explains why it is involved:
We know that Planned Parenthood’s business is abortion, and their target audience is students. Planned Parenthood affiliates in Pennsylvania perform over half of the abortions in the state. They are the leading abortion advocate and provider, and their state annual reports continue to show that over 90% of their pregnancy services (i.e. prenatal care, adoption referrals, and abortion). There is no doubt that their counseling will biased (as noted repeatedly by former Planned Parenthood works and directors) and that women and preborn children will be at risk if Planned Parenthood enters these high schools.
In May, a school district in Michigan rejected a similar proposal after pro-life advocates and parents protested a plan to have Planned Parenthood teach sex education in their schools.
According to the NPR Michigan affiliate, Saline Area Schools asked local residents for their opinions about a proposal to allow Planned Parenthood-trained teens to teach sex education to students at its schools. In May, school officials said they abandoned the proposal because of the overwhelmingly negative responses they received from the public.
Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the United States, aborting more than 300,000 unborn babies every year. The abortion chain also teaches sex education in public schools across the country, and promotes risky sexual behavior to vulnerable young teens at its clinics.
In 2014, Live Action released an undercover video series showing Planned Parenthood employees encouraging young teens to participate in sado-masochistic sexual activities, including gagging, whipping, asphyxiation, shopping at sex stores and viewing pornography.
LifeNews also reported Planned Parenthood’s booklet for HIV-positive youth, “Healthy, Happy and Hot,” tells young people that it is their “human right” to not tell their partner that they have HIV.
The abortion giant also publishes multiple “resources” for children and teenagers concerning sexual activity. These materials claim to provide “age appropriate” sex education to children starting at age 4.
Planned Parenthood justifies starting sex-education at such a young age by stating, “Ideally, medical accurate sexuality education would be taught each year in our schools from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade.”
they just don’t stop do they?
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Great guidance to the “children”...murdering babies in the school. Great. Obviously, this is being done “for the children”. Educators and administrators there are so “progressive”. Aren’t they “special”?
All good parents should should send their daughters and sons to private schools.
Is the high school, one that has a lot of black and Hispanic Kids?
If so, that is blatant and murdering racism!
Have said for years that this was their plan...to have a PP clinic in every school....bottom line....for abortion services.
They need to challenge this on the basis that Margaret Sanger, the groups Founder was an Unapologetic Racist Bigot and salivated at the mere thought of exterminating the Black Population, the undesirables.
I wonder how far away we are from forced abortions?
Evil is running the tables...
Remember: Republicans made sure to fund them.
ADVOCATING THE PEDOPHILE CREDO Planned Parenthood Federation of America has proclaimed a "right to sexual enjoyment" as a basic human right for all people, including children, and is pushing that goal in every arena, including schools, community groups, and particularly the United Nations.
PP hires children as young as 14 to promote sex to their peers, and one affiliate recently posted a job listing for a state-funded peer educator position that requires that the teens must attend the annual gay pride parade in order to work for PP. (more below)
When Planned Parenthood of Greater Northern New Jersey held its annual national sex educators’ conference, it promoted a website pushing such resources as “Unequal Partners, Teaching about Power and Consent in Adult-Teen and Other Relationships.” Planned Parenthood is actively involved in trying to push the boundaries that separate and protect children from sexual activity.
While this particular texting program has launched in the Denver area, it may well be a test program with plans for nationwide expansion. Parents must be very vocal in their opposition to Planned Parenthood texting their children. You can monitor your children’s phones for texting by noting the program’s acronym and number.
The Planned Parenthood “In Case You’re Curious” contact info is obtained by texting ICYC to 66746.
(CNSNews.com) – By the time they leave elementary school, children should be able to “define sexual orientation,” and by the eighth grade be able to “define emergency contraception and its use,” according to a report containing controversial new recommendations for sex education in U.S. public schools.
“Ideally, comprehensive sexuality education should start in kindergarten and continue through 12th grade,” says the “National Sexuality Education Standards” report, drawn up by a range of advocates, academics and public education officials.
The Future of Sex Education (FoSE), an initiative started by sex education advocates, developed the standards “to create a strategic plan for sexuality education policy and implementation.”
Also involved are the American School Health Association, the National Education Association Health Information Network – the non-profit arm of the nation’s largest teacher’s union, the NEA – the American Association for Health Education and the Society of State Leaders of Health and Physical Education.
An advisory committee includes senior officials from Planned Parenthood and the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN).
“Is the high school, one that has a lot of black and Hispanic Kids?
If so, that is blatant and murdering racism!”
True wonder if PP flies the Confederate Flag? Oh wait!
When did PP get in the sex reassignment business?
What does Hormone Therapy have to do with female reproductive services? And don’t tell me they are only targeting females. The texts probably go to both sexes.
Indeed. 1Peter 5:8. “The devil prowls.”
No surprise. They have been doing abortions for girls without asking or telling the parents.
What’s next? Sex-’change’ clinics in elementary schools?
Racism at it’s best under the guise of planning parenthood for high school girls . How nice ,,,, I call it racial genocide .
But you are adding truth to the situation. You know that is not allowed.
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