Field trip…to Planned Parenthood
posted at 2:27 pm on June 13, 2007 by Michelle
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Dateline Manchester, NH:
The city school board has ordered an investigation into how an after-school program run by the YMCA with the school district ended up taking some middle school students to visit Planned Parenthood.
The vote was taken early Tuesday morning after a marathon board meeting. The board asked the district to investigate how the decision was made, recommend any necessary policy changes and determine whether anyone should be disciplined.
Meanwhile, New Hampshire Right to Life has asked for equal time with the students.
“We request that the same children be allowed to sit with an educator from New Hampshire Right to Life,” Darlene Pawlik, the group’s president, said at the school board meeting Monday night.
The YMCA’s STAY program is for students considered at risk of dropping out of school, abusing drugs or getting into trouble with the law.
A week ago, STAY workers included Planned Parenthood on a tour of several social service agencies in the city, to show the students where they could go for support, recreation and help over the summer. Several anti-abortion protesters outside the clinic spoke to the students as well.
The Planned Parenthood educator who met with the students, Anne Johnson, said she never mentioned abortion. But Pawlik said that’s no reason for denying her group equal time.
“Everybody knows Planned Parenthood performs abortions,” she said. “There were protesters outside with signs saying, ‘Babies killed here.’ There’s no mistaking that (the students) have already been exposed to the issue.”
Schools Superintendent Michael Ludwell said he would need to see a formal, written request from New Hampshire Right to Life before deciding whether a representative should meet with the students, but he questioned whether the seventh and eighth graders should be required to deal with such a sensitive political issue again.
Reason # 99,9999 to homeschool.
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That’s an opinion, specifically your opinion, not a fact. It’s a favorite statement of the hard Left, but have never ever (30 years and counting) seen any statistic or study to back it up, just ad nauseum repetitions. In Africa, children are considered wealth. Reducing the number of children in a family would reduce their wealth. Hmm. With farming and merchant business, the more kids, the more hands to till and plant the crops, the more people out there selling and bringing in cash. Watching Japan get poorer by the year - with deaths now outpacing births. Not enough children to man the companies that the retirees have invested in. Not enough young people to help the elderly.
So what makes you such an expert on what we teach our kids? Don’t recall seeing your well-informed mug at our table during the last go around of current topics. Another blanket, un-backed up but oft-repeated statement of the Left.
Yep. Lesson No. 1. Sex makes babies.
Lesson No. 2: Abortions hurt like hell. First, you need drugs to block the physical pain, then drugs later to block the anguish.
Knew a Japanese woman who’d had 5 abortions. She grew old, filled with guilt, which only worsened as she aged. She didn’t recall the good things she’d done. And this in a society that approved of abortions. Very very sad.
naliaka on June 14, 2007 at 2:12 AM
The claim that abortions reduce poverty is insane as well dishonest!
Who would make such an idiotic statement anyway?
William
William2006 on June 14, 2007 at 2:49 AM
And if not for Planned Parenthood this poor young girl would not be having sex.
I was quite aware of that. It’s called making a prediction.
Prediction confirmed!
Let me introduce you to something you may not have heard of before it’s called “Natural Family Planning,” and it’s what Planned Parenthood gets its name from.
Thank you!
So you truly believe that everything a child learns should be taught to them by their parents? Seriously?
A fertilized egg is not a “baby;” the sooner people like you get that through your heads the better the world will be. It’s detrimental to society to have so many people believe that forcing a woman to give birth after she’s impregnated is the “right” thing to do. It’s useless even arguing with people like you when all you can think about when you hear the word “abortion” is “murder.”
If you think anyone is going to carry on a debate of any significance when the two people can’t agree on whether or not something is murder you need to get a grip on reality.
The “Libbies” aren’t forcing women to have abortions, they’re just making sure the option is available to women who want it. It’s pretty startling to see “conservatives” in favor of governmental regulation of a woman’s body (a fetus–not a baby for those who like interjecting–is more important than a living breathing woman).
See my above statements.
Believe it or not (and by the tone of your post you seem like the person who will fall under the “not” category) your kids will learn things you don’t teach them. I’d even venture to guess (and you might want to stop reading here if you don’t want your view of children corrupted) that your kids curse (*gasp*) when they’re with their friends! They might even (*shifty eyes*) masturbate! My dad never taught me how to jerk off, but I managed to do it anyways, and I’d be willing to bet the same is true with your kids, regardless of how much you tell teach them premarital sex is wrong.
It also feels really good and is a decision you’re free to make (and accept the consequences). Did you know the clitoris is the only part of the human body that functions specifically for pleasure?
What a sad story! If only our beloved government had forced her to have her children everything would have been peachy! (Alternatively if we lived in a society most people on this blog want that Japanese woman would be convicted as a serial killer) Why must we live in a society where women are free to make their own decisions! WHY!?
And let me emphasize again for the people so woefully out of touch inhabiting this thread: The teacher never mentioned abortion!
Nonfactor on June 14, 2007 at 3:24 AM
Planned Parenthood, with the help of our tax dollars, enabled her molestation by a 19 year old pedophile who should have been in jail. When her parents found out (because I made it clear that if she didn’t tell I would, and I had many talks with her mother subsequent to that to make sure they knew they whole story) they pressed charges against the guy and got their daughter in counseling.
Should the parents have had a better relationship with their daughter and known what she was up to? Certainly. But should society permit (and subsidize) her molestation just because her parents believed the lie that she was a shorter adult who didn’t really need parents? Certainly NOT.
Laura on June 14, 2007 at 7:46 AM
Throughout history, the prerequisite for almost every any crime against humanity has been to de-humanize the intended victim.
SicSemperTyrannus on June 14, 2007 at 12:03 PM
Nonfactor… an embryo left in it’s natural state becomes a baby. It IS living, and it IS a human being. No one gives birth and nutures a tumor…so it is not just a piece of tissue.
Now…once again, as I’ve stated previously!!!! I don’t fight about outlawing abortion. (We have much bigger problems to deal with, in my opinion, as a country right now.) My problem is with people thinking that this is a good option. It is not a good choice for ANYONE, including the woman. If you can’t raise it, adopt it out.
Killing it is selfish, abhorent and just plain wrong. That simple.
tickleddragon on June 14, 2007 at 12:21 PM
Nonfactor:
Parents are responsible for training up their children (and this is Biblical). Parents may choose to delegate that responsibility to a teacher. In the early frontier, parents would get together to hire a teacher for their children. In any case, the teacher is responsible to the parents and the parents are responsible to society, in training up the children.
True. But a fertilized egg (in the context of the current topic) IS a HUMAN. Fertilized egg, fetus, baby, toddler, teenager, elderly… are just terms used to describe different stages in a human lifecycle. You still maintain your same genetic identity through all of these stages.
When people say “keep your laws off my body”, they fail to understand that they are violating their own idea. They are destroying SOMEONE ELSE’S BODY.
DNA is used to identify a unique human being. Courts of law use it today to accertain whether or not someone was at a murder scene. IT IS USED AS A MEANS TO IDENTIFY AN INDIVIDUAL… and it is established at the moment of conception. Thus, personhood is established at conception.
dominigan on June 14, 2007 at 1:24 PM
Beautifully succinct. May I lift it? (sincerely)
RushBaby on June 14, 2007 at 1:33 PM
Please do.
dominigan on June 14, 2007 at 1:45 PM
And a seed also becomes a flower, but when I crush that seed I haven’t killed a flower, I’ve simply crushed a seed. Just because a fetus might become a living baby doesn’t mean that to remove the fetus is killing a child. And that’s just from a scientific perspective.
So is that a yes? Or do you just think that teachers should only teach the subjects parents want (or are comfortable with) them to teach to their children? In other words you’re comfortable with forcing the school to be at the mercy of overly protective parents.
A fertilized egg is a fertilized egg. A baby is a baby. A girl is a girl. There is a difference. A woman can choose to have a fertilized egg removed from her body and it will not be considered murder because that egg is not a baby, or a girl, et cetera. Saying “human” in all capital letters doesn’t make it more true (this applies to phrases such as “someone else’s body” and “it is used as a means to identify an individual” as well).
See above. A fetus is not “someone” it is a fetus.
Non sequitor.
Nonfactor on June 14, 2007 at 3:11 PM
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