(American Life League) — It’s a truth not widely told or covered in mainstream media, but it’s one that deserves telling and repeating until every parent and teacher understands. Planned Parenthood’s sex education has infiltrated public schools across the country, and the only way to drive this organization out is for you and me to step up, speak out, and protect the innocence of our children.
Recent news from the American Life League called attention to the fact that not only is Planned Parenthood the nation’s number one abortion chain, but its far-reaching tentacles are in classrooms across the country teaching its perverted brand of sex education—one that normalizes abortion, teaches that boys can become girls (and vice versa), and that no-strings-attached sex is an acceptable and harmless way of life.
Planned Parenthood’s sex ed plan is illustrated in a 56-page booklet geared toward anyone instructing children about sex education. Entitled Deliver + Enable Toolkit, its goal is “scaling up comprehensive sexuality education,” and this document is replete with instructions and “logic” about why children as young as 10 need PP’s brand of sexual education. In fact, one of its statements is that “access to CSE is a universal human right.”
At one point in the document, under the heading “Avoid conflicting messages”—presumably about chastity and saving sexual activity for marriage—it explains that these messages “can reinforce harmful cultural practices and negative views about sexuality and undermine [Planned Parenthood’s] program’s success.”
Make no mistake. Planned Parenthood wants to teach our children its own brand of sexuality, which is so far from morality that morality isn’t even in the same ballpark.
The largest provider of sex ed
Planned Parenthood isn’t in just a few schools across the country; its programs are ubiquitous. On its website, Planned Parenthood Action Fund boasts that it is “the single largest provider of sex education in the United States, reaching 1.2 million people with education and outreach each year.”
Why does Planned Parenthood want to teach its own brand of sex ed? Simple. It can provide birth control and then later, when the birth control fails, it will earn its blood money by performing abortions.
Let’s look at just a few examples of some of the ways Planned Parenthood is worming its way into schools and even homes, as kids can easily download these free programs on their own, if they’re curious.
Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest offers Sex Ed To-Go, which allows anyone with an email address to download free video modules. Students as young as 4th grade learn about topics such as puberty and relationship skills, which may sound innocuous, but never underestimate Planned Parenthood and its teachings. Kids in 8th grade and older will learn about pregnancy prevention, abortion, gender identity, sex in the media, and more. The site even has a course entitled How Abortion Works, which describes abortion as “a common medical procedure that many people have heard of, many people have, and many people don’t understand very well.” Then there is a course entitled Reproductive Anatomy, which fails to use the terms man and woman, opting instead for “anatomy of a person with a penis and a person with a vagina.”
Planned Parenthood of Northern, Central and Southern New Jersey wrote a back-to-school blog telling kids going back to school that PP is “always here for all your sexual and reproductive health needs whether you need a wellness exam, are interested in birth control, [or] want some free condoms.”
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles offers a high school curriculum and training for teachers. Its site says, “Our goal is to foster understanding about human sexuality and educate youth and adults about their right to health care” (i.e., abortion).
Planned Parenthood of South, East and North Florida is one of many PP facilities that teaches minors about how to obtain an abortion without a parent’s consent. In a page entitled “Abortion Care for People Under 18” (yes, PP refuses to call a pregnant mother a woman), there are instructions for obtaining a judicial bypass so a girl can have an abortion without consent from her parent. The Virginia League for Planned Parenthood offers the same information about a judicial bypass, as does Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. They are far from the only ones.
We must act
In the press release, ALL’s national director Katie Brown stated that what is “notably absent” in these programs is “any mention of chastity, expectant motherhood, fetal development, or parenting.”
Brown continues, “Our children are America’s most precious commodity, and we can’t let them be abused by an entity that views them as disposable fodder for an ideology that devalues them and their very existence by insisting that they are expendable before and up to the moment, even after, they are born. Allowing Planned Parenthood to teach our children about anything does these young ones a horrible—and deadly—disservice.”
So what can the average person do to get Planned Parenthood out of schools?
While it may seem daunting to fight the abortion Goliath, remember that little David won. You can be that David and cleanse your schools of Planned Parenthood. ALL’s Stop Planned Parenthood International (STOPP) program can help you; its staff works daily with concerned citizens across America providing the knowledge and the tools to fight this organization. STOPP has numerous resources, including a how-to book, to equip parents and educators to keep PP out of their classrooms and communities. All it takes is a willingness to learn and tell the truth.
But consistent education within the home—with programs like the Culture of Life Studies Program—is also a crucial component of combating the mentality of Planned Parenthood, as teaching our children that all life should be cherished and valued helps lay the foundation they need to weed through the lies they will eventually hear in the secular world.
Children are precious gifts. Protecting their innocence—and their souls—is a monumental task in this culture, but it can be done. Like David, we simply need to rise to the challenge.
Susan Ciancio is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and has worked as a writer and editor for over 20 years; 15 of those years have been in the pro-life sector. Currently, she is the editor of American Life League’s Celebrate Life Magazine—the nation’s premier Catholic pro-life magazine. She is also the director and executive editor of ALL’s Culture of Life Studies Program—a pre-K-12 Catholic pro-life education organization.