Would you want Planned Parenthood teaching sex ed at your child's school? I know I surely would not.
Planned Parenthood's troubling 'philosophy'
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Planned Parenthood is an approved speaker for the mandatory health classes at Hardin Valley Academy. Kymberly McCormick, the mother, says she had no idea what the clinic would be teaching her 16-year-old daughter.
"This is about us having a right as parents to control what our children are taught," she told a local television station. "I don't have an objection to the sex education. It's this group; it's their whole philosophy."
When her daughter, Alaynna, researched Planned Parenthood's website, she was shocked at how the links go well beyond what most parents would find acceptable.
"This is not about sexual education," contends Alaynna. "This is about sexual instruction and sexual encouragement. People assume that...a whole bunch of educators...have gone through this stuff. They assume that it's safe, and it's not."
The McCormick family hopes their experience might encourage parents nationwide to educate themselves on what their youngsters are being taught and whether Planned Parenthood is involved.
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Is Planned Parenthood to blame for the high number of abortions in California? One has to wonder.
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Sex ed in Calif. displays solid pro-abortion push
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California is being accused of having one of the nation's most vigorous sex-ed curriculums that promote a culture of abortion, making it a "win-win" situation for groups like Planned Parenthood.
According to a recent study by the Guttmacher Institute, 24 percent of babies in California are aborted. And while that number is lower than in previous years, the number of abortions in the state is still highest in the nation.
Cheryl Sullinger, senior policy advisor for Operation Rescue, says schools in The Golden State are indoctrinating children and youth with its approach to sex education and promoting a culture of abortion.
"Organizations like Planned Parenthood are allowed to come in [to schools] and give presentations to children -- and they're also a big promoter of a loose attitude towards free sex," she laments. "They believe that children [should] be allowed to have sex, and they promote this throughout their literature and throughout their presentations."
According to Sullinger, students are encouraged to have so-called "safe sex" and are handed poor-quality condoms and contraceptives. The result, she says, is that when the contraceptives fail, young people often resort to Planned Parenthood and abortion clinics.
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These kinds of things are not new. But most parents don't pay much attention to what their kids are learning or not learning anymore. And I know from my own experience with my step-daughter that she did not confide in her parents about what was actually taught in the sex ed classes they allowed her to attend. (She did end up telling me and I was outraged.)
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I know that when I was home schooling my son, I often knew more about what was being taught in public schools than did the parents of kids attending public school. It was important for me to know, so that my son could had at least an equal, and hopefully much better, educational experience. For instance, I purchased public school science books so that he could see what they were learning, compared to his home school science books. The difference? Home school books we used taught about Creation and about the theory of evolution. Public school books taught just the theory of evolution.
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It has amazed me over the years how fewer and fewer parents go to open house events, read the text books their kids bring home, ask about homework assignments.
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And, I'm sure that many were relieved when the public schools decided to take over the instruction of sex ed. That has always been a problem for parents, from generation to generation. But in relinquishing this responsibility, parents have allowed our kids and grandkids to be fed the notion that they just are not capable of not having sex. It's no wonder that there are so many unwanted pregnancies, if the people who promote abortions are part of sex ed. They make money on abortions. Duh. Of course they're going to encourage kids to have sex.
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Comments: 129
A good part of our citizenry have concluded there isn't a absolute standard of integrity and morality ... just what keeps people safe and happy without hurting others. (except unborn babies. They don't count)
and I still can't find that hidden abortion clinic at our Planned Parenthood, been looking for the last couple years and still can't find it..but hey, you say they do abortions there, so got to find that place.
WRONG. 98% of what PP does is dispense birth control. Many clinics dont even perform abortions.
I was talking one specific clinic BTW.
One day we had a boy come into Planned Parenthood wanting a pap smear because he thought he had an STI.
Then there was the girl who came in claiming she couldnt be pregnant because she was on top and sperm cant flow up.
Then there was the group of 4 girls that had their boyfriends use ziplock baggies because they were as good as condoms.
I dont know how many girls I have seen that didnt think they could get pregnant the first tiem they had sex.
And inserting birth control pills internally is a common misconception young girls have.
Based on this and many more examples I can see that parents are doing a stand up job of teaching their kids about their bodies that PP really isnt needed.
But we cannot fix stupid.
Teenage pregnancies feel drastically during the clinton era in large part because of the sex ed teachings in school.
During the Bush era with the abstinence only teachings teen pregnancy went up a little.
Boy you are a quick one arent you? Put away the magnifying glass Sherlock I have never hidden this fact from anyone.
She would be making money off of it. wonder how it feels to profit off the death of someones pre- born child.
No that would be known as a JOB..something I suspect you are not at all familiar with. A PP employee makes no more or less profit off of their job then someone who works at Walmart or Target or McDonalds.
Normally i would just ignore you JJ cause frankly you are not bright and having an intelligent conversation with you is impossible. But every once in awhile you say something so unbright that it forces someone to respond.
If those women would pay health premiums instead of party clothes, jewelry and booze they could afford a $50 doctor visit and a $230 breast exam.
NOT ONE DIME OF TAXPAYER MONEY TO A BABY KILLER GROUP.
I didn't have party clothing, fancy jewelry (only my 40 dollar wedding ring) and didn't drink...and I had Cancer, and my f-ing docter I paid 200.00 a visit didn't find it.
So you go f yourself, you are still the most ignorant idiotic person I ever met..you think a woman deserves cancer because they don't have the money.
My god you are a callous woman.
Nellie, stop blaming others for your own responsibilities. Perhaps you might want to think about hanging around with more civilized work ethic people to get better role model.
Being realistic is not callous. I'd tell my sons/wives the same thing.
P.S. Could you please direct me to where I ever said a poor person deserves cancer? You do realize that even those who have $1 million dollars do still die of cancer? Ask the Ted Kennedy family.
Football?
Because I appreciate my states team, I didn't buy tickets (fool...) it is in Texas (wow, you are ignorant)
Rap music? I hate rap...I wrote a post about someone famous who appreciated our team also (you really have blinders on)...
My own responsibilities..beetoch, I work seven days a week, ten to twelve hours a day, I worked all day today, I work all day tomorrow, I work all day Monday, I work all day Tuesday..get the drift you bonehead.
and you are a callous person, you don't care about anyone who disagrees with you, you are spitefully with a closed mind against anyone who thinks different than you..you are a Bunker in a female disuise..
and your PS, read your own shat. oh if they didn't have this or that they could afford to pay almost 300.00 to go to the doctor. Hello...read that statement again.
and again my responsibilities, do you pay my 20,000 dr bill? did you pay my 50.000 student loan? do you pay my rent? my utilities? my food?
No..I pay my bills, support a disabled husband and never asked for a handout from anyone. I rather work my arse off to be where I am today...but you wouldn't understand that with your "job"
now bugger off...you ain't worth the crapola off the bottom of my working boots.
P.S. Work on behaving civilly, it will get you a lot further in life.
I hold 4 degrees Nora, 2 AA, 1 BA and a Masters...nah, 50,000 is good round figure. (ya don't know much about how much schooling costs now do ya?)
William, Nora believes everyone else in the world is wrong and she is the only one right...I never act civil towards stupid...they might misunderstand it and start thinking "ohhhh a friend"
I also agree that if some goes to a doctor charging $200 per visit, it's up to them to find one who doesn't charge so much. Seriously, it's really time for people to start being responsible for themselves.
And, no that is not being calloused. It's being helpful. The more a person leans on others, the more one has to lean on others. Even Ben Franklin understood that.
I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, I observed in different countries that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the lest they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves and became richer. (Benjamin Franklin, November 1766)
Lori, if kids today are the ignorant of sex, then perhaps their parents should not be parents. I'd also say that they need their IQs tested and probably put into classes for mentally challenged. No kids in today's world could possibly be that ignorant about sex.
What's sad is that no one is allowed to even mention not having sex to kids any more. Back when I lived in FL, there was a man who taught classes in the public schools about abstinence. He dressed in a bright pink sports coat with "Mr. No Sex" on the back. Back then, he taught 8th graders, but today the classes would obviously have to be for younger kids.
They were separated by sex - something that should be done today and is not. The girls were given every line imaginable that guys will feed them to try to get into their pants. They were told what a glorious thing sex is - between two people committed to each other and intending to be together forever. They were taught how to refrain from having sex. They were taught what leads up to sex.
At the same time, I was teaching a Sunday school class of 13 year old girls. As part of our class, we talked about when they would start dating and the importance of never responding "I don't know" when a boy asked them out and asked what they wanted to do. Each one wrote a list of things they would like to do on a date and kept it in their wallets for when - in the future, since none were allowed to date until they were 16 - a guy called. I met up with one of the girls when she was in college and she still used her list (but had added to it) for times when a guy called, so she never said, "I don't know" or "I don't care" because she understood that could lead to just sitting around and necking.
It's time that we empower our kids again, arming them with the knowledge that they certainly do have the ability to abstain from sex until they're mature enough to handle it and in love and ready to settle down.
If those women would pay health premiums instead of party clothes, jewelry and booze they could afford a $50 doctor visit and a $230 breast exam.
The ambiguity and lack of connection to reality is blatant. As if some folks only have two options and the option of party clothes, jewelry and booze is beyond insulting to those who struggle to make ends meet. This shows a clear Semmelweis reflex with no appeal to evidence or rationality.
I guess you only count in this country if you are wealthy..at least to some..hope she never finds herself in the same position.
But I think she feels she was just a good person down on their luck but poor people that get breast cancer somehow deserve it because they bought a purse 20 years ago and didnt save that money to spend on future hospital bills.
As for Nora I suspect that she doesnt have a pot ot pee in or a window to throw it out of but she feels much like Mariln that she is a good person while others just suck off the teet of the government.
as their faces. I remember a woman who worked in the same field office that I did when I worked for Shell Oil. She was a temporary and didn't receive benefits because the temporary agency made sure none of their temporaries worked 40 hours a week. She was there every day she was supposed to be there and didn't leave a minute before. There was one day she came in and looked horrible. She had a raging fever. She didn't want to leave because she had young children and was a single mom. She didn't get sick pay. She HAD to work. At one point we noticed she had fallen asleep sitting up in her chair. Darned it all if nobody said a thing. We all knew her situation and we all knew she was very sick. We let her sleep. We each took some of her work and helped her out. And when she woke up, nobody said a thing about her sleeping. She stayed the rest of the day but was in tears by the time she left, feeling so very ill.
There wasn't any rap music at that time. This was in the early 80s. She didn't have fancy clothes, nor did she wear much jewelry. But I'll never forget what she had to go through and what she taught me.
I also had a friend who left her husband because he wouldn't stop abusing drugs. She had two babies. She went to live in the housing units and did everything she could for those two boys. I remember when she finally got a car. Good God, you could see through the floor boards and there was so much primer on it I don't know what the real color was. But she was delighted to have wheels. She was a darned good mother to those two boys. Still is.
She didn't listen to rap music, have expensive clothes or fancy jewelry. But she couldn't afford a doctor for herself. She'd take the kids if they needed it but would forgo treatment for herself to save the money. Again, I'll never forget what she had to go through and what she taught me.
Not everybody is the same and to assume someone can't afford medical treatment because they spent all their money on unnecessary items shows a shallow mindset. It's wrong. Just plain wrong.
Lori, you too are a liar with your claim that I" she told me not long ago that she uses money as a guide to how good and christian like a person is." That is nothing but a figment of your imagination.
I stand by my belief, people who end up destitute and dependent on the government year after year after year are stuck there because of bad choices they have made. I refuse to buy into your blame of the system!
If you tell me that you have never made a bad choice, I will not be able to believe that. It's a human trait. We all make bad choices. And sometimes bad choices are thrust upon us. Should we all be penalized then?
Its funny that people like Nora are all up in arms about abortion being murder but yet they are OK with children starving to death because they are homeless.
Pretty hypocritical.
Cathy L. Of course I have made some bad choices over the years. I learned from them! I didn't blame others, didn't claim someone else "forced" me to choose what I did. I accepted my consequences and moved on.
I get so tired of whiny baby people who think the world owe's them. It doesn't! And whoever taught that it did, performs a big disservice.
You have a choice, live your life with acceptance, modesty, frugality and humbleness and you can hold your head high. OR live your life constantly complaining about what you don't have and spend your life in misery.
Lori, with all the food banks and free lunches before during and after school, and all the charitable give aways, I hardly think there are starving children.
Could you please substantiate your claim of all these starving children?
BTW a large majority of homeless are veterans with medical problems so based on your bad choice hypothesis would their bad choice be to serve their country and fight in wars?
My friend who left her husband didn't do this whine and complain. She went into public housing thankful to have a roof over her head instead of living on the street with two babies. She accepted her circumstances and knew they were temporary. Why should she be penalized? Why should she have to listen to callous remarks?
Where is a link that proves people who accept services spend what money they do have on rap music, football, party clothes and jewelry? I'd like to see proof of that because I certainly don't know of anybody who does that.
Proof please, no blogs either.
In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of Latino children were chronically hungry compared to 16% of white children.
The infant mortality rate is closely linked to inadequate nutrition among pregnant women. The U.S. ranks 23rd among industrial nations in infant mortality. African-American infants die at nearly twice the rate of white infants.
One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.
I know plenty of people who live so far below the poverty line that they dont register but most of them are very hard workers making minimum wage.
Hunger in America
And if you want to play the false dichotomy game of Right/good vs. Left/bad, or visa versa, you've limited yourself to very shallow beliefs.
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When I saw that hogwash of a site, I chose not to waste my time on any of the other that you or Lori "provided". You and she are quoting hogwash balogna.
Please, Nora, read this phrase found within the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable Rights; that among these, are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Now tell me specifically what are unalienable rights, inalienable rights, sovereign rights of man, inherent rights and implied rights. Do we have these rights and are they spelled out in detail in the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence?
Yes, and about those horrible starving children. Aren't there workhouses for them? Put them in workhouses and let them eat cake.
When I saw that hogwash of a site, I chose not to waste my time on any of the other that you or Lori "provided". You and she are quoting hogwash balogna[sic].
You have yet to tell me which site. Between Lori and I, there were four sites offered. What are you afraid of that you fear looking at the sites? That you quite probably could be wrong about those horrible starving children? Why would that upset you? If you are right, then great, we have no stinking starving children. If you are wrong, then what is the worst that could happen to you? You might find compassion. But if you continue to hide behind broken links and blue numbers then we might as well send you to an ostrich farm.
But I'm done. Thomas has provided a couple of links. Lori has provided links. I have provided links. I have asked for citations numerous times and they were only provided by Thomas, and I appreciate him backing up what he is saying.
You, however, have no compassion for others, you are afraid of new information, you base everything on the right-good/left-bad false dichotomy. You have brought no knowledge or information to the discussion but have attempted some ruse by declaring credible links as "very left wing" and "balogna[sic]" simply because of your biases and you are unable to connect to a link. AND no one knows what link that is because you fail to identify it. Me thinks there is no link at all.
Heck, Nora, I've known you for a few years now and you can't even do me the kindness of spelling my name correctly.
I see for you, this is more about being right at all costs than learning the truth. With statements like "there are no starving children here" and poor people can't afford cancer treatment because they spend all their money on rap music, party clothes and jewelry, your biases and ignorance are clearly showing. Let children starve, it's not your problem, right? It's their parents' fault for making bad choices, right? Even though you haven't a clue the choices all of these parents have made, for you it's the same for everybody. Poor families just whine and snivel, spend money on party clothes, rap music and jewelry. All of them.
Enfin je me rappelai le pis-aller d’une grande princesse à qui l’on disait que les paysans n’avaient pas de pain, et qui répondit : Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.
Plenty of food subsidies, plenty of private food banks, free school lunch programs etc. I still don't buy into your nonsense.
Have a nice day!
Nope. Sorry. She was not clear. There are four articles. I provided three. I have asked at least twice which of the four she complaining about and she does not say. If it says "page not found," on one link, it could be one broken link on a page of many, or it could be a failure of Nora's internet, she has lag and was unable to pull up the page, or her ISP was having trouble. Sorry. If I knew which article, then I could understand what the problem was. One broken link, or failure of an ISP, does not prove an article unreliable.
....then there were the other three.
Lori, you don't have to say that the government owes you something to have the attitude that everyone (well, maybe not liberal/progressives) can see in your actions. And, it appears that you cannot discern whining and complaining either.
The government cannot legislate happiness because it means something different to everyone. But we all have equal access to pursue it. Nowhere does it guarantee us equal outcomes in our pursuit.
Now that's just ignorant.