January 25, 2013 (STOPP) – When North Dakota state legislator Bette Grande took to the airwaves to say that Planned Parenthood has no business in the state and threatened to cut a university’s state funding if it went forward with its Planned Parenthood partnership, she knocked the abortion giant right off its pedestal. Planned Parenthood was preparing to launch a community-based sex program with the help of two professors from North Dakota State University. The school and the abortion mogul were set to partner in a three-year, $1.2 million federal PREP education grant that had been awarded in September.
The sex program was scheduled to begin in January 2013 in a state whose mandated, singular message to youth in the realm of sexuality education is abstinence. According to a January 18 article from Inside Higher Ed:
Bette Grande, a Republican representative, criticized the university for going against the legislature’s wishes in allowing its faculty to apply for a grant that the state had turned down, and threatened to cut the university’s funding in retaliation. “When I see something that says this is Planned Parenthood—they’re not even a part of the state of North Dakota, and they shouldn’t be a part of North Dakota,” Grande said. “They’re not a part of how we do business in this state.”
On Wednesday, the university’s president, Dean Bresciani, appeared on the same radio show and announced that the college was freezing the grant money and would probably return it to the federal government.
“There’s a lot of confusion over what the project is and would do,” Bresciani said, but he said the question was a “moot point” because recent legal analysis suggested that proceeding with the project would violate state law.
“What we’ve found is a very specific codicil of the law that makes it clear that it cannot be with Planned Parenthood, and unless we can work around that—and again, I’m not holding out hope on that—we will have to go to the direction of returning the resources,” Bresciani said. The university, he said, “always wants to be in compliance with state law and state lawmakers’ intent.”
Interestingly, while there are no Planned Parenthood patient facilities inside the border of North Dakota, Planned Parenthood says it maintains an administrative and educational office in Fargo, North Dakota. It also has a “health center” in Moorhead, Minnesota, which adjoins Fargo. It obviously has been pushing to force its abortion and anything-goes sex agenda in the state of North Dakota since at least 2004, when Planned Parenthood of Minnesota and South Dakota changed its name to include North Dakota.
Those decrying the university’s decision to forego the federal funding and the Planned Parenthood partnership volleyed the idea that the only difference between abstinence education and Planned Parenthood’s “comprehensive sex education” is that the latter includes information about contraception.
But what does it really include? While there seems to be no information available online on the content of the now defunct North Dakota program “Reach One Teach One: North Dakota,” STOPP has chronicled detailed information on other PREP-funded programs being implemented across the nation.
One such program, It’s Your Game, was developed by Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast and The University of Texas Prevention Research Center in Houston with PREP funding—the same pool of federal money in play in North Dakota. The curriculum was stopped days short of its scheduled debut in 17 middle schools in the Cy-Fair School District in Houston when parents began to expose its outrageous content. Included in the program were videos of young female students being groped by young men; cartoon characters known as “lame brains” in bed after having sex, complete with moaning and knives flying out of one character’s penis because he got an STD; and much more. These videos are targeting 12- and 13-year-old students. You can view the parents’ website here. It contains screen shots of some of the objectionable content and instruction on how to get on the university website to view the content.
State senator Dan Patrick, head of the senate education committee, was instrumental in getting the curriculum stopped in the Cy-Fair school district. As we have seen recently in Houston and now in North Dakota, when legislators speak out against abusive sex education it comes to a screeching halt. Of course, in order to make that happen, those legislators who support family, decency, the sanctity of life, and traditional values must first be elected to office. Prayer and action are critical—action that begins at the grassroots level.
Planned Parenthood was 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 the U.S. in 2012. It is imperative that parents and school officials awake and understand that eliminating Planned Parenthood sex education is essential to the welfare of our children. Fighting Planned Parenthood sex education is one of the cornerstones of STOPP’s plan to stop Planned Parenthood. It will be a major area of focus in our 2013 efforts. Our success depends on the unwavering involvement of local parents, educators, legislators, and community members. Please join us and urge others to do the same. To consult us free of charge about our strategy or to book one of our expert speakers, contact [email protected].
Mega-kudos to the people of North Dakota for standing up to Planned Parenthood and its evil agenda, and to Representative Bette Grande for boldly stepping in to protect the children of North Dakota! This is a huge victory for the children and the communities that inevitably remain on Planned Parenthood’s radar.
Reprinted with permission from STOPP.org.