Anti-Abstinence Education Measure in Congress
Democrats in the U.S. House have introduced a bill purportedly aimed at reducing abortions, but which would, in fact, increase funding of sex education without a major abstinence component.
The bill, the Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act, also calls for increased access to contraceptives and expanded Medicaid family-planning coverage.
"It's about death, and it's about spreading Planned Parenthood's philosophy and getting millions of dollars into their coffers," said Jim Sedlak, vice president of the American Life League.
Sedlak described the bill as one that helps fund the wish list Planned Parenthood gave the Obama administration in its earliest days.
"And that wish list, if you added everything up, comes out to $4.6 billion going into Planned Parenthood and their friends," he said.
Valerie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association, noted the House Energy and Commerce Committee has rejected Title V abstinence-education funds from going to states and replaced it with a $50 million program for teen pregnancy prevention.
"And that ," she noted, "is just code for more contraceptive education, explicit sexual education in the schools across the country."
Sedlak doesn't buy the claim that the bill has support from some pro-lifers.
"There is no major pro-life organization in this country that would support this kind of a bill," he said, adding that the bill's mention of adoption promotion is simply the other side "throwing us a bone."
Contact: Roger Greer
Source: CitizenLink
Publish Date: July 23, 2009
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Democrats in the U.S. House have introduced a bill purportedly aimed at reducing abortions, but which would, in fact, increase funding of sex education without a major abstinence component.
The bill, the Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act, also calls for increased access to contraceptives and expanded Medicaid family-planning coverage.
"It's about death, and it's about spreading Planned Parenthood's philosophy and getting millions of dollars into their coffers," said Jim Sedlak, vice president of the American Life League.
Sedlak described the bill as one that helps fund the wish list Planned Parenthood gave the Obama administration in its earliest days.
"And that wish list, if you added everything up, comes out to $4.6 billion going into Planned Parenthood and their friends," he said.
Valerie Huber, executive director of the National Abstinence Education Association, noted the House Energy and Commerce Committee has rejected Title V abstinence-education funds from going to states and replaced it with a $50 million program for teen pregnancy prevention.
"And that ," she noted, "is just code for more contraceptive education, explicit sexual education in the schools across the country."
Sedlak doesn't buy the claim that the bill has support from some pro-lifers.
"There is no major pro-life organization in this country that would support this kind of a bill," he said, adding that the bill's mention of adoption promotion is simply the other side "throwing us a bone."
Contact: Roger Greer
Source: CitizenLink
Publish Date: July 23, 2009
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