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To the Editor:
The progressive humanists of today’s culture seem to be the only ones having a say-so about what subjects can and must be taught in our public education system. Eight years ago, Jerome Higgins, referring to Planned Parenthood, had this to say: “Their whole thrust is to promote value-free sex education in the schools, which leads to promiscuity, which leads to pregnancy, which leads to abortion.”
As breaking news pervades the airways about Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter being pregnant, the Democrats were quick to remind us concerning a question put to Gov. Palin by the conservative Eagle Forum of Alaska in 2006. She was asked, “Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics and distribution of contraceptives in schools?” Her answer: “Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support.”
The only motive the Democrats could possibly have would be to point out her fallacy in good judgment. But to the contrary, many of us agree with Jerome Higgins that sex ed in public education does just the opposite of preventing teenage pregnancy; just look at the “hook-up” culture of 2008. Thanks to a God-free public education system, Sarah Palin’s teenage pregnant daughter seems to be commonplace these days. Statistics show that nearly half of all 15- to 19-year-olds in the United States have had sex at least once. Thirty-seven percent of births in the United States occurred outside of marriage in 2005. This is good business for Planned Parenthood and their abortion clinics. In April, the annual report of Planned Parenthood Federation of America revealed that the abortion giant had a total income of $1.02 billion, with reported profits of nearly $115 million. Taxpayers kick in more than $336 million worth of government grants and contracts at both the state and federal levels. That’s a third of Planned Parenthood’s budget. Outcome-based sex education/Planned Parenthood, what a combo?
Howard W. Hall
Shawnee