Planned Parenthood Attempts to Infiltrate Texas Schools

Planned Parenthood is attempting to increase their presence in public schools to promote their pro-abortion agenda to students.  The official Planned Parenthood website has a section designed for middle and high school educators to use for sexual education lessons.

Planned Parenthood’s website offers educators several resources and links to help them create a sexual education curriculum that promotes sexual promiscuity and exploration of alternative lifestyles.  The website offers to help educators craft lessons and activities that “cover human development, human reproduction, sexual health, masturbation and other sexual behaviors, all options for unintended pregnancies, sexual expression, sexual identity, and sexual orientation.”

Teachers are encouraged to select pamphlets for their classroom that cover all topics from having sex to deciding to have an abortion.  There are also links to videos and websites that cast sexual behavior and expression in a positive light.  Students are getting the message that sexual expression is healthy and normal, and if they should happen to need an abortion as a result of all of this activity, then their local Planned Parenthood affiliate will be there to assist them.  There is a disclaimer on the website that Planned Parenthood Federation has not necessarily reviewed or endorsed these curricula or materials.
Planned Parenthood also provides “educators and trainers” who are available for public schools to present topics to students in health or biology classes. 

The topics available include abortion, safer sex, and women’s sexual health.  There is a section of the website for educators to enter their zip code to find a local list of presenters.  The site promises that these presentations are, “engaging, medically accurate, and age-appropriate.”  These speakers are articulate, energetic, and persuasive and create a permanent link between fun and Planned Parenthood in the student’s minds.

Pro-Life activists and organizations must continue to fight to either expel or keep Planned Parenthood materials and speakers from all public schools.  Most districts now require parental notification and consent letters before students are exposed to speakers from Planned Parenthood.  If this has not happened, local Pro-Life activists begin grassroots and legal efforts to make sure that these safeguards are implemented immediately.  The most effective steps to fight the presence of Planned Parenthood in schools include educating the community about the situation and addressing the school board with an accurate, detailed, and researched complaint. 

Pro-Life Texans have done an excellent job of keeping Planned Parenthood out of public schools.  One of our own “Generation Now” scholars had a Planned Parenthood speaker in her biology class in a public high school in Corpus Christi.  A local activist was able to make a difference and make sure that the school no longer had speakers from Planned Parenthood ever again.

This is an area in which the Pro-Life community must never cease our efforts.  Planned Parenthood is working around the clock to spread their pro-abortion agenda and corrupt the impressionable minds of the country’s youth.  Call your local school district administrative offices and ask them who provides the sexual educational materials for health and biology classes.  If they say that Planned Parenthood is the provider, contact Texas Right to Life for steps you can take to fight and expel this organization from your child’s school.   


LifeNews.com Note:  Doug McGee writes for Texas Right to Life.
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/06/23/planned-parenthood-attempts-to-infiltrate-texas-schools/

Grade 5 Student’s Abortion Speech Subject to ‘Intimidated Censorship’

Source: 5th Grade Student's Speech by Rebecca Millette FALKLAND, British Columbia, June 2, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com)

“Did you know that from the moment of conception, every distinctive characteristic of this new human being is programmed into this single initial cell?” asks Calise Jontz.

Young, bright-eyed and articulate, 10-year-old Calise lives with her parents and seven siblings on a cattle ranch in rural British Columbia.  An avid Justin Bieber fan, she also loves horses, reading, singing and dancing.  Most recently, she has become a pro-life advocate.

“Today I will be speaking to you about abortion,” continues the confident, self-assured Grade 5 student from rural Falkland, B.C. “Is this a controversial issue? Yes, but like all controversial issues it requires urgent attention and education.”

The statements come from a speech that the young girl delivered as part of a school speech contest. When Calise first delivered it at her local school, it “didn’t seem to be bothered by this topic,” says Calise’s mom, Yolanda Jontz, “although the Principal did request to hear her speech initially, I guess to make sure it was appropriate for elementary school aged children.”

But all that changed when Calise went to the regional speech competition at a nearby host school, where Jontz says her daughter encountered what she called “intimidated censorship.”

According to Jontz, her daughter’s speech deliberately did not include any graphic details about abortion, such as descriptions of partial birth abortions, instead sticking to the facts and results of abortion in a manner appropriate for a young audience.

Nevertheless, upon arriving at the host school for the speech competition, Yolanda and her daughter found the gymnasium nearly empty, where Yolanda says usually the entire school, as well as competitors and parents, would attend. A handful of competitors, parents, and the judges were present for Calise’s speech, but only after her speech, as well as few others, did both younger and older students come.

Yolanda says that Calise’s speech was singled out and boycotted by other schools, with students and their parents being forewarned about its content.

LifeSiteNews contacted the principal at the school that hosted the competition.  Principal Denise Brown was reluctant to discuss the issue, saying no letter about the speech had been sent to parents at her school; she directed all other questions to Wendy Woodhurst, School District Director of Instruction.

In response to inquiries about what actions the school took in reference to Calise’s speech, Woodhurst refused to comment unless a face-to-face interview could be conducted, which was impossible for the reporter.

Yolanda told LSN, however, that at least one parent that she knows of received a warning letter about the abortion speech, while no mention was made of other controversial and even gory topics. 
“We weren’t informed that one speech was going to be about dolphin slaughter, or that another was about how great Lady Gaga is. This seemed unfair,” she said. “Maybe people can be offered the chance to hear it for themselves and decide if it is offensive or not.”

However, Yolanda says that one adult male approached her following her daughter’s presentation and, with tears in his eyes, commended Calise for her speech and her bravery.

Another student’s father, formerly a trustee with the school board, also praised Calise and expressed concern about the negative attention surrounding her speech, said Yolanda.  While he said he might not agree with everything Calise presented, he would never have censored her topic. The speech, he added, had sparked good discussion with his own daughters. 

“Intimidated censorship,” said Jontz. “That’s kind of what I viewed it as. It must have upset somebody, because it wouldn’t have gone this far.”

In the speech Calise asked: “Is the fetus human? And does it deserve protection?” concluding, “The answer to both is yes.”

“A fetus is a rapidly developing human being, not just a clump of cells, and is worth protecting. Many stages of human development have been scientifically documented, just view an ultrasound – I have,” says Calise, who explains that she saw ultrasounds and felt the movement of her younger brothers while they were still within their mom.

“So what is abortion, you ask?” concludes Calise. “Abortion isn’t just ending a pregnancy or eliminating a piece of tissue. No, abortion is killing an unborn child and hurting a mother.”

Komen Sends Women to Planned Parenthood for Nonexistent Mammograms

ACTION: Contact Komen for the Cure to ask it to stop referring women for nonexistent mammograms at Planned Parenthood at http://ww5.komen.org/Contact.aspx

Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the breast cancer awareness group, is coming under criticism again — this time for referring women to the Planned Parenthood abortion business for mammograms Planned Parenthood doesn’t provide.
In March, officials with Live Action conducted an undercover investigation by calling Planned Parenthood centers nationwide. They learned that Planned Parenthood doesn’t have machines to perform mammograms and, despite advertising to women that they can contact the abortion business for them, it refers all women seeking mammograms to other health care providers.

“We don’t provide those services whatsoever,” admitted a staffer at Planned Parenthood of Arizona while a staffer at Planned Parenthood’s Comprehensive Health Center clinic in Overland Park, Kansas tells a caller, “We actually don’t have a, um, mammogram machine, at our clinics.”

In April, following criticism of Komen because it provides grants to Planned Parenthood that it has said are in part, to provide mammograms, Komen officials admitted Planned Parenthood doesn’t do mammograms.

“When a mammogram is indicated, a patient is often referred to a local program, such as the state’s breast and cervical cancer program. In other cases, the Komen Affiliate’s grant to Planned Parenthood may include funds to pay for mammograms outright. When this happens, a local provider performs the mammogram, and is then reimbursed by Planned Parenthood using the Komen grant funds,” Komen admitted.

Following up on the controversy, John Jansen of the Pro-Life Action League was curious to know whether Komen would continue to refer women to Planned Parenthood for mammograms.
“I’m looking for a clinic where my mom could go to get a free mammogram,” Jansen wrote from his email account in late April. “Someone told me that she can get one at Planned Parenthood, is that true?”
Komen responded to the email with three referrals for Jansen:  a listing of local Komen affiliates, a link to the Centers for Disease Control and links to Planned Parenthood.

“Women can make an appointment for low-cost breast health services with the clinic nearest them,” Komen says and includes a link to the Planned Parenthood web site and its toll-free phone number.


Jansen said, “You’ll notice, of course, that this form letter response didn’t actually answer my question. And so even though I knew what the answer would be, I did as I was advised, and then I responded to Komen, ‘I called the 1-800 number for Planned Parenthood and they connected me to the clinic closest to where I live, but when I called them they said they don’t do mammograms.”

“Komen’s representative then replied by slightly modifying the form letter she had previously sent and removing any reference to Planned Parenthood,” he indicated.
Last week, Jansen conducted a followup from a different email address and directly asked Komen if Planned Parenthood does mammograms, saying, “I seem to remember hearing that they offer mammograms. Can you confirm whether they do?” Jansen said he figured he would get the same email back and, although a different Komen employee responded, he received the same email with the three links, one of which promotes Planned Parenthood.


Live Action released videotaped footage of calls to 30 Planned Parenthood centers nationwide in 27 different states where abortion facility staff were asked whether or not mammograms could be performed on site. Every one of the Planned Parenthood centers admitted they could not do mammograms. Every Planned Parenthood, without exception, tells the women calling that they will have to go elsewhere for a mammogram, and many clinics admit that no Planned Parenthood clinics provide this breast cancer screening procedure.

“Given the public relations black eye that Planned Parenthood has suffered these past few months, you might think that Komen would want to distance itself from Planned Parenthood,” Jansen concludes. “But then you’d be wrong.”

Last year, Komen spokesman John Hammarley confirmed 20 of Komen’s 122 affiliates have made donations to Planned Parenthood and, in 2009, those contributions totaled $731,303. He also confirmed Komen affiliates contributed about $3.3 million to the abortion business from 2004-2009.

ACTION: Contact Komen for the Cure to ask it to stop referring women for nonexistent mammograms at Planned Parenthood at http://ww5.komen.org/Contact.aspx

Source: http://www.lifenews.com/2011/06/16/komen-sends-women-to-planned-parenthood-for-nonexistent-mammograms/

Wife of China Activist Against Forced Abortions Details Torture

The human rights organization ChinaAid has obtained a letter from Yuan Weijing, the wife of blind attorney and forced abortion opponent Chen Guangcheng on Wednesday that offers details, for the first time, of the torture and beatings both have faced.



Chen is credited with further exposing the brutal forced abortion and sterilizations campaigns that took place in his home city of Linyi that saw thousands of people victimized by family planning officials enforcing the nation’s one-child policy prohibiting couples from having a second child. After he gave interviews to the Washington Post and filed a class action lawsuit on their behalf, Chinese officials arrested him on bogus charges and he was imprisoned.

During the time Chen was imprisoned, he was severely beaten and tortured and his wife Yuan faced house arrest and her own beatings by local thugs hired by city and family planning officials.

The letter Yuan sent to ChinaAid followed recorded video footage the organization released in February showing how both Chen and his wife have been badly wounded. Chen’s mother is also under video surveillance by Chinese officials and their five-year-old daughter lost her freedom to move without government scrutiny in February.

Yuan’s letter says that, on February 18, “led by the vice secretary of the Communist Party of Shuanghou Town, Zhang Jian and some National Security Policemen, a group of 70-80 guys stormed through my home gate. They beat and tortured my husband Chen Guangcheng and me for more than two hours.”

“Without showing any legal documents and without any of them wearing a uniform, they plundered almost everything from my home. My husband and I were wounded severely, yet not allowed to leave home for any medical aid,” Yuan explained. “More than 10 men covered me totally with a blanket and kicked my ribs and all over my body. After half an hour’s non-stop torture, I finally squeezed my head out of the blanket. I saw more than 10 men surrounded Chen Guangcheng, torturing him.”

“Some of them twisted his arms forcefully while the others pushing his head down and lifting his collar up tightly. Given his poor health condition of long-time diarrhea, Guangchen was not able to resist and passed out after more than two hours of torture,” Yuan’s letter continues. “My left eyebrow bone and one of my bottom left ribs might be broken. My left eye lost vision for 5-6 days because of the bruise, blood in the white of my eye, and swollenness. Even today, I still can not stand with my body straight and I suffer pain when breathing. At the same time we were being tortured, the other men performed a thorough search with all kinds of their detective equipment. They took away our computer, video camera, audio tape recorder, all of our chargers, and even flashlights, etc.”

“When they were searching, they kept silent. None of them had uniforms on, neither did they show any legal document to us. They did not even give us a receipt for the confiscated items of our family property. Before their departure, Zhang Jian said to us that they were following orders from higher-level officials, and he expected we understood that without his explanation. He ordered those men to drop us on the ground, and left with them,” Yuan continued.

The Chinese officials prohibited the couple from obtaining proper medical care following the beatings.
“We had to stay in bed because of the wounds, having difficulties turning around our bodies. We had no access to any medical aid. On Feb 19 they only allowed me to get a one-time IV injection from a village doctor. No more medical aid afterward,” Yuan said in the letter to ChinaAid.

Following the beatings, officials have been busy trying to limit the couple’s contact with the outside world.
“On March 3, they sealed our windows with sheets of metal. On March 6 they cut off electric power. At midnight of March 7, the guards crept into our home and cut off our TV antenna. In the morning of March 8, the electric power was back. On the same day, Zhang Jiang led 40-50 men storming into my home and took away our old computer, some hand written materials, DVD player and some remotes, and all of the materials about Chen Guangcheng’s case,” Yuan said in the letter. “Zhang punched my head with his fist because I confronted him by asking why they were robbing us. On March 17, Zhang Jian led another group of 40-50 men into my home with a few dozen huge bags. They sacked all of our property which they thought they should take into the bags, including all of our books, the posters of our children on the wall, the calendar, Guangcheng’s blind cane, all of our papers, worn power plugs, antenna, wires, etc. March 22, they installed two video cameras on our home gate and southwest corner of our courtyard so they can monitor my home completely.”

“Since Feb 24, our five-year-old daughter has been under house arrest, just like us, without being allowed to step outside of home. They took her books and some toys away,” Yuan said.
The surveillance extends to Chen’s mother and Yuan writes, “Guangcheng’s mother is closely followed and physically monitored by 3 men every day, step by step, even when she works in the farm’s field. After mid-March, she was not allowed to go out even for buying vegetables. Therefore our daily life has gotten too hard to survive. Besides, Guangcheng’s health condition got worse. The blood from his diarrhea turned to dark instead of red as before. That is why I am so worried.”

The letter asks ChinaAid to contact friends of the couple for legal help and Yuan says she is worried the officials will take the couple from their home and force them to live in an open courtyard outside their village.

Bob Fu, ChinaAid president, commented on the contents of the letter and condemned the actions by the Chinese officials.

“Peaceful legal advocates, like Chen Guangcheng, can be beaten, jailed and tortured, but they will not disappear unless the international community is silent,” he said. “Chinese police torture a poor, blind lawyer to cover up evidence of the government’s abuses against women. This is unacceptable from a country that claims to follow the rule of law. The international community, including the Obama administration, should call China to account.”

Source: http://www.lifenews.com/2011/06/17/wife-of-china-activist-against-forced-abortions-details-torture/