Counter-intuitive but true: Planned Parenthood increases the teen pregnancy rate in the counties in which they operate.
Teen pregnancy rates fall when Planned Parenthood offices are closed.
Posted on 10/07/2013 8:55:09 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
As a part of American Life League’s just-released meta-study of Planned Parenthood, Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP) researchers analyzed the teen pregnancy rate in 16 counties of the Texas Panhandle. In those counties, over an 11-year period, closures of Planned Parenthood facilities were ongoing in the face of strong community opposition to the abortion giant’s presence.
Our study of teen pregnancy rates in the Amarillo area was prompted, in part, by news reports that Texas Department of Health State Services statistics for 2010 showed that the teen pregnancy rate is lower in Potter and Randall Counties of Texas—where Planned Parenthood’s business was focused and headquartered—than it has been since records have been kept.
The TDH statistics reflect the status of teen pregnancy two years after the last two Planned Parenthood centers in the service area of Planned Parenthood of Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle disaffiliated from Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
While many things factor into the teen pregnancy rate (TPR), the fact that the TPR continually declined as Planned Parenthood facilities closed, and reached its lowest point in recorded history two years after disaffiliation of the last two remaining facilities, was a significant confirmation that Planned Parenthood’s presence and its “evidence based” sex education programs are not a necessary component to reducing teen pregnancy.
The number of Planned Parenthood facilities in the Texas Panhandle diminished over a number of years in the face of active opposition to Planned Parenthood and its agenda. Education and activism against Planned Parenthood began on a large scale in 1997. In 1999, Planned Parenthood of Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle shut down five facilities. In 2001, it shut down seven more facilities. From 2003 to 2006, it shut down four more facilities. By the end of 2008, there were no Planned Parenthood facilities remaining.
Numbers obtained from the Texas Department of State Health Services, Vital Statistics Annual Report, Table 14B, for the years 1994 through 2010 confirmed that, indeed, dramatic declines occurred in the teen pregnancy rates as opposition to Planned Parenthood increased and the Planned Parenthood facilities were shutting down across the Texas Panhandle.
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In 1996, the year before opposition to Planned Parenthood began, the average teen pregnancy rate in the 16 counties where Planned Parenthood operated facilities was 43.6 per 1,000 girls aged 13 to 17. By 2002, the rate had dropped to 28.6. In 2008, the year the last two Planned Parenthood facilities disaffiliated from PPFA, the teen pregnancy rate was 27.2. And in 2010, two years after the Texas Panhandle became Planned Parenthood-free, the teen pregnancy rate had fallen to 24.1.
Other salient facts borne out by the statistics:
• Taking just these 16 counties, with a teen population stable at about 13,000, the actual number of teen pregnancies fell from an average of 544 per year in the five years before Planned Parenthood started closing its doors to an average of 373 in the last five years.
• The two prime counties of Planned Parenthood’s operation saw significant declines in teen pregnancies:
Randall County teen pregnancies fell from 70-80 a year to 40-50.
Potter County teen pregnancies fell from 200-250 a year to 129.
In Deaf Smith County, with a total teen population of 900 or less each year, the number of teen pregnancies fell from 40-57 a year in the years preceding Planned Parenthood’s closure to the 20s in recent years.
Despite the fact that statistics show that Planned Parenthood’s “evidence-based, comprehensive sex education” is not a necessary component in reducing the teen pregnancy rate, the abortion giant continues its unholy crusade to spread its programs into schools and community organizations across the nation, as it works to eliminate abstinence until marriage education funding.
Its school programs target children as young as kindergarten age and place a special emphasis on students in middle school—as young as 11 years old—imposing explicit sexual information on them during a period in their lives when it can do great psychological and physical harm. These programs—if they touch on abstinence at all—define abstinence as abstaining from sexual activity that can cause pregnancy, and give the green light to “protected” sex.
The children get the message loud and clear that sex outside of marriage is good, necessary, and expected, but that resultant pregnancies are to be avoided or eliminated at all cost. This lays the groundwork for young women and men who default to abortion when a pregnancy occurs. That results in yet another huge revenue source for Planned Parenthood. In fact, in 2011, it is estimated that abortion accounted for 57 percent of Planned Parenthood’s clinic income.
While Planned Parenthood claims that the number of American children and parents impacted by its “comprehensive sex education” is hovering around 1.1 million per year, it is now forming coalitions of Planned Parenthood affiliates and partnering with publicly funded universities and other entities to receive the lion’s share of $75 million annually earmarked by Obamacare for use in developing and implementing “comprehensive” sex education programs in public schools and other community settings.
Matt Barber, an attorney concentrating on constitutional law, wrote in an article published by World Net Daily in October 2012 confirming what we have been warning parents and school officials for decades: Planned Parenthood—now in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services via the Obama administration—is grooming children for sexual abuse through programs which are based on “criminally fraudulent” research conducted by Alfred Kinsey, “a promiscuous homosexual and sadomasochist,” whose research included serially sexually abusing children as young as two months of age.
According to Barber:
Among other things, Kinsey asserted that children are “sexual from birth.” He further concluded, based upon experiments he directed and documented in his infamous Table 34, that adult-child sex is harmless, even beneficial, and described child “orgasm” as “culminating in extreme trembling, collapse, loss of color, and sometimes fainting.” Many children suffered “excruciating pain,” he observed, “and [would] scream if movement [was] continued.” Some “[would] fight away from the [adult] partner and may make violent attempts to avoid climax, although they derive[d] definite pleasure from the situation.”
Planned Parenthood is frequently invited into publicly funded schools and, according to its annual report, spent at least $41.5 million on indoctrinating children with its “comprehensive sex education” programs in 2012. Our study makes it clear that, based on empirical data, Planned Parenthood comprehensive sexuality education programs are not an essential element in reducing teen pregnancy. Since the programs can harm the children they are inflicted upon, they should be removed from all communities.
Counter-intuitive but true: Planned Parenthood increases the teen pregnancy rate in the counties in which they operate.
Teen pregnancy rates fall when Planned Parenthood offices are closed.
Obviously, if the ultimate “out” for fornication is removed, there will be less fornication.
Planned Parenthood’s sex education arm pushes FOR teen sexual promiscuity. SIECUS considers orgasm a birthright to be enjoyed at every age. It is the sex positive agenda. They are against abstinence because it is counter to their hedonist worldview (if it feels good, do it).
websites like positive.org encourage teens to “just say yes” because too many fuddy duddies tell them to say “no” to “stuff”.
Your tax dollars have been funding this agenda in academia, health care, government. The UN also pushes it.
Not so obviously, and certainly not widely accepted, according to the most studied theologians of the past 50 years, abortion is the fruit of birth control.
Birth control is actually the ultimate ‘out’ for fornication, even within, and especially within, marriages.
Objectification
Too bad that the only people who will read this article have already figured this out.
It's reasonable to assume that these locales had other sources of contraceptives and maybe even other abortion facilities. It's possible, as the author suggests, that the key change was the elimination of Planned Parenthood propaganda in the schools.
"God made you wrong: sex with you results in babies." No wonder so many women are depressed.
Well duh. It’s not called Planned Non parenthood.
Great statement.
What you said, PLUS their pills and condoms perform the poorest of available options that have been tested.
They’re depressed, they’re on drugs and marriages are failing, since this all started, at a rate never before seen.
People blame now fault divorce. For a 50% fail rate. NO way.
Causes and effects can be hard to sort out. Marriage has always been difficult, because people are difficult, but it used to be natural.
Studies show that people (Catholics) who do not practice birth control for religious reasons have a one (That’s 1)% chance of divorce.
Many, if not half, of those are marriages that were at one time troubled and the sample will talk about the problem with BC.
So, I am not trying to guess.
It comes from the true situation.
It can be a very inconvenient fact, but it is a fact.
There is an extensive theological study on this written in 1968. It predicted all of the difficulties we are having. Abortion is listed as a difficulty, not a causative factor.
Out of wedlock pregnancies, amorality in media, porn addiction, immodest dress, objectification of women, disrespect for mother hood.
Discuss amongst yuhselves.
“They’re depressed, they’re on drugs and marriages are failing, since this all started, at a rate never before seen. People blame now fault divorce. For a 50% fail rate. NO way.”
The divorce rate must be falling, as post-Christian Americans don’t even bother getting married anymore. The falling birthrate is probably more of an indication of economic collapse than people suddenly getting morality.
Okay. I think it makes a difference that we're talking about a self-selected group of people who are deeply committed to doing the right thing, no matter how difficult it is.
That’s right. And they, many of them, had problems that were leading to divorce that were not solvable eithout getting rid of birth control
The next question is not writing them off as devout but what is it about birth control that is so destructive.
I don’t know what you mean about a falling
A high rate of cohabitation certainly is not an improvement over a high divorce rate. It’s unstable
From my own experience, I believe that determination and obedience are the absolutely essential factors. And too much pride to be a quitter.
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