On their home page, for example, you will find the following health topics: birth control, abortion, STDs, HIV & Safer Sex, Pregnancy and Emergency Contraception.” No mention of abstinence.
That list is followed by a button reading, “More Topics.” Click on that and a longer list appear — also without any mention of abstinence.
But wait, it gets better. To find information on abstinence, you have to use the search option. That brings you to a page which, thankfully, admits abstinence is a 100% positive way to avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Unfortunately, this valuable information is then tainted by a bullet point that reads, “[Abstinence] is endorsed by many religious groups.”
Now, that may be true, but it is also endorsed by a lot of clear-thinking, levelheaded parents who do not watch televangelists and do not speak in tongue.
Planned Parenthood can’t say that, however, because that would legitimize abstinence and possibly reduce their future client pool.
Most parents are relieved that schools are teaching sex education because they have no desire to do it themselves.
But you may be surprised to read what I was told by Tom Antal, superintendent of secondary instruction for the Newport-Mesa Unified School District: “Schools do not have to have a sex education curriculum.”
This is what makes the Planned Parenthood criticism so laughable: The district is under no legal obligation to offer sex education, but they do, and are still slammed by Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood criticized the textbook used, “A Guide to Wellness,” from Glencoe Publishing.
