Posted on 10/30/2010 1:59:03 PM PDT by wagglebee
A pro-life group is accusing the national Planned Parenthood abortion business of misrepresenting a recent Centers for Disease Control report on teen birth rates.
The new CDC report provides more evidence that abstinence education decreases teen sexual activity and pregnancy, but Planned Parenthood put its own spin on the numbers to promote its childhood sex education programs, says officials with American Life League.
“This is another illustration of how Planned Parenthood uses deception at every level to promote its deadly agenda,” said Rita Diller, national director of Stop Planned Parenthood International (STOPP), an ALL project.
The recently released CDC report entitled “State Disparities in Teenage Birth Rates in the United States” acknowledges that teenage birth rates have continued to decline since their peak in 1991. It then examines the ethnicity of teen mothers in 2007, and finds they are predominantly Hispanic and black in almost every state.
In response, Planned Parenthood issued what Diller says is a misleading press release that stated, “This new CDC report makes it crystal clear that the teen birthrate is lower in states that provide students with comprehensive, evidence-based sex education.”
Diller notes the CDC report makes no mention of what type of sex education (or abstinence message) is used in a given state or geographic area.
“Planned Parenthood conveniently ignores the fact that the decrease in teen sexual activity and teen pregnancy coincide with the availability and popularity of giving abstinence messages to kids across the U.S. in the 1990s and into the 2000s,” she said.
The report affirms that “[t]here has been a broad consensus on the goal of preventing teenage pregnancy, and a wide variety of public and private programs have been developed to meet this challenge.”
It attributes the variations in teenage birth rates states and ethnicities to “many factors, including differences in socioeconomic factors, such as education and income, risk behaviors such as sexual activity and contraceptive use, and attitudes among teenagers toward pregnancy and childbearing.”
But Planned Parenthood’s misleading release reveals its intent to “bombard minority teens with its salacious, perverted, immoral sex education by means of a huge amount of taxpayer funding from the Obama administration,” according to Diller.
That comment came in response to a Planned Parenthood statement saying, “[s]ex educators like Planned Parenthood are poised to make tremendous progress in reducing teen pregnancy, because for the first time in American history the federal government has ensured that federal funds will be used primarily by states and community organizations that provide evidence-based sex education to reduce teen pregnancy.”
The abortion business applauded “the Obama administration’s allocation of $155 million for evidence-based sex education” calling it a “true turning point in the history of sex education in the United States.”
“Planned Parenthood was behind the wheel of sex education in the United States during the years when teen sexual activity was increasing dramatically,” Diller pointed out.
“However, teen pregnancy and sexual activity rates began an almost two-decade decline with the availability and popularity of abstinence messages, bolstered by a small amount of public funding. So, it is truly terrifying to think that the new turning point of sex education is a 180-degree wrong turn – back into the clutches of Planned Parenthood,” she said.
Because that was ALWAYS Big Murder's intent.
These people have exactly the same attitude toward aborting babies that Dunkin Donuts has toward making donuts.
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And do you think Big Murder of Little Innocents (Planned Parenthood) will tell the truth?
PP needs to first of all receive absolute no taxpayer money, then have its non-profit status removed. Hopefully the R Congress will push for these.
And do you think Big Murder of Little Innocents (Planned Parenthood) will tell the truth?
When pigs fly, of course they will.
While the roles of the CDC and Planned Parenthood require certain kinds of actions for us on this issue; let’s bring some sanity to this mess where it counts most - in “public education”.
How?
By
(1) Demanding that “public education” - government run schools, MUST be completely agnostic when it comes to “education” about sex and sexuality.
What does that mean?
It means they CANNOT BE proponents or opponents of particular points of view about WHAT ought to be taught, or WHAT ought to be said; or not taught or said;
and, therefor
(2) REQUIRES “public education” institutions to REFRAIN from OFFERING classroom materials and class time, beyond the general mechanics of human reproduction AT AN AGE-APPROPRIATE TIME;
(3) And REQUIRES ANY other “curriculum” materials (related to sex and sexuality) be provided to the parents only, for THEIR use (or not) in supporting whatever else the parent thinks is important and appropriate to share with their children.
This MUST be done, on the basis that our children are not the property of the state and the sexual mores they need to learn most MUST BE, HAVE A RIGHT TO BE, contextual to the family’s moral values; which cannot be respected in a general classroom setting because such a general classroom setting WILL inherently fail to respect the values of some children and their families, automatically, by what is and what is not provided in that setting.
Private education is another matter and this is where parents have leeway about the choices for their child’s education and sometimes even have room for greater respect for their point of view, particularly when a consensus of the parents, whose children attend a private school, makes itself known and the institution wants not to lose their support.
We do not need to try to fight to place “abstinence” education IN “public education”, we need to get “sex and sexuality” education altogether OUT of the classroom in “public education”. There is no curriculum battle to be fought in that, because it’s out of the classroom and reserved for the parents, to use or not. Everyone, all the parents, “social conservatives” or not, gain from that. All parents would have as much as they choose, or do not choose, to draw from in assisting their children in that education. The only ones who lose are the arrogant “public school” educators who think they have a right to teach sexual mores to our children and to do so however they chose.
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