A LifeNet Editorial
The article by Twanna A. Hines entitled Sex education in school saves lives (The Journal News 10/30/11) emphasizes a disproportionate desire on the part of Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic to sexualize younger and younger children under the pretext of what was traditionally called “health” education in schools. No reasonable adult has convinced me that my children, now grown, needed to be exposed to graphic sexual images at age 9 or 10 in order to “save their lives”.
This article is a public relations piece that presents Planned Parenthood’s “Making Proud Choices” program as benign because the program uses the word abstinence. Have parents asked to see all the materials? Otherwise intelligent, busy adults want to believe without question that Planned Parenthood’s “age-appropriate” emblem protects against graphic materials that might be offensive to them or their children.
One primary role of an adult in a child’s life is to love and protect him or her from harm and violence, and that used to include protecting their innocence. Parents’ rights are being trampled here. A society that purportedly treasures its children now wants to expose them in school to graphic images of sexual practices of every sort to, let's be honest, appease adult agendas. How did parents ever allow Planned Parenthood’s “education professionals” into our schools? Why are they being allowed increasing access to the most intimate aspects of our children’s bodies and minds with hardly a whisper of protest?
by Judith Anderson
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