SEX EDUCATION FOR FOURTH GRADERS?
Planned Parenthood Report Pushing Sex, Abortion for Children Draws More Fire
by
Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com
Editor
February 9, 2010
The new report, titled Stand and Deliver,"
sees the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) demanding that
governments, religious institutions and society at large provide
"comprehensive sexuality education" for children as young as ten
years old.
According
to IPPF, as "young people are sexual beings," it should be
self-evident that "sexuality education promotes individual well-being and
the advancement of broader societal and public health goals."
Naturally,
once children are enabled to have sexual relations, they will eventually need
the contraception, birth control and abortions that Planned Parenthood sells.
“IPPF uses
the terms young people, youth and adolescents interchangeably to refer to
people who are between 10 and 24," Donohue notes in a statement sent to
LifeNews.com today. "In other words, 5th graders should be treated the same
way graduate students are when it comes to their 'sexual and reproductive
health and rights.'"
Donohue
says the entire program is based on a faulty assumption.
IPPF says
that “The taboo on youth sexuality is one of the key forces driving the AIDS
epidemic and high rates of teenage pregnancy and maternal mortality.”
The
Catholic League president calls that "nonsense" and says: "In
the 1950s, there was no sex education in the schools, the pill was not
commercially available and AIDS didn't exist. Yet the out-of-wedlock birth rate
was comparatively miniscule and sexually transmitted diseases were relatively
rare. All because of taboos."
Donohue
also criticizes the IPPF report's language saying, “Fundamentalist and other
religious groups—the Catholic Church and madrasas (Islamic schools) for
example—have imposed tremendous barriers that prevent young people,
particularly, from obtaining information and services related to sex and
reproduction.”
According
to IPPF, religious institutions – like the Catholic Church and Islamic schools
– need to be "pragmatic" to accommodate young people as "sexual
beings" and amend their teachings to "find a way of explaining and
providing guidance on issues of sex and sexual relationships among young people,
which supports rather than denies their experiences and needs."
He
responds: "So the kids in Sister Mary’s class who learn about responsible
sex are analogous to Imam Mohammad’s kids who are either denied sex education
or are told that homosexuality is punishable by death."
Ultimately,
the pro-life advocate says Planned Parenthood is putting children at risk.
"Why
is it that public school students, who know so much more about sex than those
dunces in the parochial schools, are precisely the ones walking around with the
highest rates of illegitimacy, abortion and herpes?" he asks.
Related
web sites:
Catholic League - http://catholicleague.org