Right to Life

Abstinence-only education is one of the religious right's greatest challenges to the nation's sexual health. But it is only one tactic in a broader, longer-term strategy. Since the early 1980s, the "family values" movement has won the collaboration of governments and public institutions, from Congress to local school boards, in abridging students' constitutional rights. Schools now block student access to sexual health information in class, at the school library, and through the public library's Internet portals. They violate students' free speech rights by censoring student publications of articles referring to sexuality. Abstinence-only programs often promote alarmist misinformation about sexual health and force-feed students religious ideology that condemns homosexuality, masturbation, abortion, and contraception. In doing so, they endanger students' sexual health.

The above quote is straight from a page on Planned Parenthood's website. This page bashes abstinence left and right saying it "cannot be justified in the face of effective programs and given the fact that we face an international emergency in the AIDS epidemic".

Whoa! Wait a minute! Lets take that "fact" first. Abstinence programs, which encourages people (primarily teenagers) to wait until marriage for sex is not justifiable because of the AIDS epidemic? That makes no sense!! If you want to reduce and ultimately eradicate AIDS then safe sex isn't going to do it - abstinence is.

This page goes on to say that things like abstinence are "religious" propaganda. Let me say this, if secular humanist were able to eliminate every religion in the world (which won't happen) and every religious thought was under control there would still be the thought that abstinence is the only true means to avoid STDs.

Planned Parenthood from the outside seems to be a safe haven for those that need help with sexually related topics. They are governmentally funded, they have research and materials to give and they have doctors and councelors there to help. Unfortunately, their agenda and what they seem to be are two different things.

Planned Parenthood is currently being sued in more than one state for failure to disclose records of potential statutory rape, which is the law. They also perform over 100,000 abortions each year.

Also found on their website is a list of 5 ways to prevent abortion - wow, that's great! But none of the 5 ways suggests waiting until you are ready. They also mention a way that won't work. What is it? Making abortion illegal. Come on, that's not true. Yes, abortion would then go to the black market and yes people would still go through with it but the numbers would drop! People would see associated risk with having abortions.

1. Make contraception more easily available.
2. Give young people a better teacher than experience.
3. Increase the involvement of men.
4. Create new birth control methods.
5. Make America friendlier to children.
The Way That Won't Work

Please don't misinterpret me. I am not against contraceptives. I am not against planning for your future and resources on how to do that. I'm not even against discussing safe ways to have sex. I AM against abortion and I AM against Planned Parenthood.

I planned on talking just about partial birth abortions and the new program to help learn why babies are being born pre-mature. I ended up researching Planned Parenthood. I have several links for you guys below but I must say that Planned Parenthood's website is all you need to see how distorted their views of the world truly are. They are not there to help. They are there to gain profit via abortion, contraceptives, and providing researches with aborted fetal tissue.

Links
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Planned Parenthood site
Planned Parenthood exposed
STOPP
Indiana Lawsuit
Ohio Lawsuit
Partial Birth Abortion Ban
PREEMIE Act
(a piece of good news!)