As part of its month-long focus on adolescent health, the Biden administration is promoting a document that tells Planned Parenthood and other taxpayer-funded family planning offices how to talk to minors about sex without their parents overhearing, and how to secretly deliver birth control to adolescents without parental knowledge or consent. …

The document links to a webinar which fleshes out these ideas in greater detail. A slide on “Ensuring Adolescent Privacy” tells Title X grantees to ask:

“1. Are they alone in the room? Always ask first! If a parent is present, ask to provide alone time during the appointment.

“2. Can people hear them outside the room? Can they relocate? Use headphones? Use yes/no questions or chat feature?” (Emphases in original.)

The written document tells teens who want to “protect their privacy” from their parents “during a virtual visit” to:

“Take the call in the bathroom, outside, or in a parked car.”
“Use headphones.”
“Schedule the call at a time when there are fewer people at home.”

[There was a time when these types of strategies to discuss sex with children would have been seen as “grooming.” And frankly, it still looks like that to me. It’s yet another attempt to cut children off from their parents and to claim them as Property Of The State, complete with the usual “It takes a village” rhetoric. Mao and Stalin would have been proud. — Ed]