Planned Parenthood Teaches Sex Ed Classes in Cleveland Public Schools

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Planned Parenthood Teaches Sex Ed Classes in Cleveland Public Schools

(CNSNews.com) – A sex ed administrator with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District says that half of the “Responsible Sexual Behavior” classes for 9th and 10th grade students are taught by Planned Parenthood personnel.

"Planned Parenthood is one of our partners that teaches about 50 percent of our 9th and 10th graders,” Lita-Marie Townsen told CNSNews.com. She made the comment at an event on Capitol Hill last week where sex education activists pushed for federal funding of programs that do not focus solely on marriage and heterosexual couples.

The event, sponsored by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), the National Education Association, and Healthy Teen Network, included Townsend as a panelist. Organizer said she could speak about the progress of comprehensive sex education programs in public schools “on the ground.”

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The “Responsible Sexual Behavior” sex education program begins in kindergarten with the “All About Life” curriculum, which is taught through 3rd grade.

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The “F.L.A.S.H.” program for grades four, five and six includes students being asked to “identify common gender stereotypes” and “identify who is at risk for HIV/AIDS and other STDs, and how disease transmission can be prevented, including abstinence and consistent, correct condom use.”
 
The “Making Proud Choices” program for 7th and 8th graders includes information about STDs and HIV/AIDS and “sexual coercion and acquaintance rape.”
 
William Smith, vice president for public policy at SIECUS, said that he and other groups like his were on Capitol Hill to push for federal funding for a sex education curriculum in public schools like the one in Cleveland.

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According to its 2007-2008 annual report, Planned Parenthood received $349.6 million in federal grants and contracts that year.

They have 2 goals:
1.  Get all the government money possible.
2.  Indoctrinate beginning in Kindergarten the liberal sexual agenda.

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Statistics favor a mixed approach at sexual education. Teaching kids about safe sex practices and the consequences of sex reduces pregnancy and disease rates.

Abstinence-only education has been shown to have a negligible effect on sexual activity, and actually increase pregnancy rates in some cases.

Should 15 year-olds be having sex? No. But they're going to. Telling them that condoms are a sin is just hurting them more. Worse, some of the abstinence programs are lying to kids about the effectiveness of condoms for preventing HIV or pregnancy.

If abstinence-only is going to be even attempted, it needs to be reworked because what we have now is broken.

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