Planned Parenthood Teen Pregnancy Solution: More Sex

From Mass Resistance:

Gloucester High teen pregnancy scandal - Liberals screaming: more Planned Parenthood sex ed is needed!

It’s been reported across the country: Seventeen girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies - more than four times the number of pregnancies the 1200-student school had last year, as reported first in Time Magazine.

The local media has been reacting loudly, and as usual common sense is being ignored in favor of heavy-handed political correctness.

But anybody could see that this was a disaster waiting to happen — sponsored by tax dollars, the sex lobby, anti-parent radical school officials, and of course your Legislature.

This really is about basic human nature, and what we all know about the psychology of adolescents.

Consider that:

1. Many kids in Gloucester are particularly vulnerable, due to the terrible economic conditions there. “Families are broken,” school superintendent Christopher Farmer told Time Magazine. “Many of our young people are growing up directionless.”
    
2. The school has mandatory Planned Parenthood-style “comprehensive sex education” classes. Sex is simply a “choice” kids can make, which the school implicitly encourages.
    
3. Girls at the school are encouraged by school officials to get free condoms and birth control pills (without parents’ knowledge) at a nearby “clinic”.
    
4. The school maintains an on-campus day-care center for girls who have babies, which the school says it’s “proud” of. “Strollers mingle seamlessly in school hallways among cheerleaders and junior ROTC,” observes Time Magazine. There is no stigma - girls are applauded for not letting pregnancy interfere with their normal lives.
    
5. The school gives free pregnancy tests to any girl that requests it - also without parents’ knowledge. (The psychological message that this sends to kids is unmistakable.)

We’ve seen what happens

We know of no school district anywhere where these kinds of things were introduced into the schools because of parents demanding them. They are ALWAYS brought in by the sex-ed industry with a heavy dose of propaganda and intimidation against anyone who questions them.

And in every school district where “comprehensive sex ed” is brought in, the sex-related problems always get bigger, not smaller. It’s the honest debate and free exchange of ideas that get stifled. And we’re only now understanding the long-term psychological effects of introducing sexual issues to the younger children.

The angry liberal knee-jerk reaction

The reaction to this tragic situation by the media and the left — led by the ultra-liberal Boston Globe — has been predictable. It’s an angry (and logically-challenged) diatribe that we need MORE Planned-Parenthood style comprehensive sex teaching in the schools, not LESS.

Earlier this week, the Globe prominently published this letter from a pro-sex-ed child psychologist. It sums up the attitude of “progressives” very well:

“[T]he United States leads all industrialized Western nations in rates of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. This epidemic is fueled by inaccurate sexual information, lack of meaningful discussion with youth about sex, poor contraceptive services, and families, schools, and communities that are ambivalent about sex and disconnected from the real-life experiences of teens. . . “
Read the entire letter here.

Then, this morning, the Globe followed it up with an editorial, which goes further:

“The [high school] clinic’s partner, Northeast Health System of Beverly, also failed by not promoting access to birth control, including condoms, at the clinic, where the students’ confidentiality could be assured. One hospital administrator was quoted worrying about liability should a teenager suffer ill health effects from taking birth control pills. But pregnancy is a greater health risk to a teenage girl than birth control medication.”
Read entire editorial here.

This is pure lunacy, of course.

But it’s that angry self-righteous attitude from liberals and the sex-ed lobby that parents are up against.

Abstinence education?

Some pro-family groups are touting abstinence education as the answer. We’ve heard positive things about abstinence education. But like a lot of parents, we think it’s probably better if the school bureaucrats get completely out the business of discussing sex with kids.

But in any case, whether you do or don’t have abstinence education, the real battle is getting the poisonous “comprehensive sexuality” and all its entrails OUT of the school systems and OUT of our children’s lives. At the very least, parents should have complete control of what happens to their children - without secrecy, intimidation, or deceit. Until that happens, this will continue and likely get worse.

As good as abstinence education might be, why should it “compete” with the powerful, pervasive Planned Parenthood propaganda? How effective is that?

The bigger battle . . .

This is fundamentally a war of utopian “progressives” and powerful special-interest lobbyists against parents and vulnerable children. They are angry, aggressive, and willing do anything. As long as they are in the schools, children will suffer.

This is the real fight we’re in.