If you have a fourth-grader or fifth-grader at home, you’ve probably become fluent in the language of video games, youth soccer, the Disney Channel or some combination of the three. Look at him or her today and ask yourself: is this child ready for comprehensive sex education – including how to experience sexual pleasure and find contraception?
The International Planned Parenthood Federation says yes (and isn’t much concerned in your answer anyway). In the twisted minds of these radical activists, sex education for children as young as age 10 is not only desirable but “an opportunity that will not come around a second time.” We’re not making this up.
The report is a stark reminder that Planned Parenthood is undeserving of federal funding to help promote any aspect of its agenda. Click here to ask your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators to champion legislation that would forbid tax dollars from going to this organization and like-minded groups.
The report takes a global view of the “problem” of young people’s limited access to “sexual and reproductive health services.” It claims that worldwide, just 17 percent of sexually active young people use contraceptives, and that 50 percent of all new HIV infections occur in young people between the ages of 15 and 24. Also “demand for family planning is expected to increase by about 50 to 75 percent from 2005 to 2020 in countries that rely on donor assistance to implement their programmes (sic).”
In other words, it’s our responsibility to provide funds for Planned Parenthood’s message of easy sex, readily available contraception and abortion in nations that haven’t yet been infected with it. No thanks!
What Planned Parenthood’s international arm wants is the ability and freedom to indoctrinate children as young as 10 with the message that sex is OK as long as you’re careful – and if you’re not careful enough, there is no reason for that life growing inside of you to become a long-term burden because it’s just a blob of tissue.
And as the report also makes clear, most nations don’t have the money to do what IPPF wants to do. So “rich nations” should take the responsibility to pony up the funds required to spread this message.
Even if sexuality for boys and girls as young as 10 were an appropriate topic of conversation in this nation or any other – and it isn’t – Planned Parenthood is the last resource we’d want to consider as a purveyor of sound information. We’d rather pay for John Edwards to travel the world offering lessons in humility.
How about a sex-education program that tells young people the truth – that sex is something most of them simply aren’t ready for; that it can result in real consequences like unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases; that they shouldn’t expect anyone to bail them out of those responsibilities if they decide to ignore our warnings.
IPPF wants the readers of this report to believe that sexuality in young people around the world is something that must be accommodated, not shaped positively. They’re wrong. It shouldn’t be forgotten that the authors of this report is an international organization that in many nations is a provider of abortions. They surely understand that encouraging young people to have sex, will lead many of them to seek abortions, which they will happily provide.
This is an irresponsible document that should be rejected out of hand. And if our elected leaders are smart, they’ll keep our tax dollars away from the U.S. Planned Parenthood organization, which performs at least 20 percent of America’s abortions each year. We’ve said it before and we’ll surely say it again: Planned Parenthood is a highly profitable organization that doesn’t need additional funding through government grants.
Click here to ask your Member of Congress and U.S. Senators to champion legislation that would forbid tax dollars from going to this organization and like-minded groups.
