A pro-family organization is concerned about the millions of dollars Planned Parenthood has recently received for teen pregnancy prevention.
Fifteen Planned Parenthood affiliates were awarded grants -- or a part of a wining grant as a subcontractor -- totaling nearly $19 million. The grants are part of President Obama's "Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative" that focuses less on abstinence and more on contraceptive use. (See related article)
"I was troubled just to see in these grants that we're supposed to be very open to abstinence education and abstinence-centered programs -- [and yet] Planned Parenthood got a pretty hefty chunk of money," notes Jeanne Monahan, director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council. "Washington State alone got $4 million."
Monahan, who used to work in the Office of the Secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services, tells OneNewsNow that Planned Parenthood is pushing for children as young as ten years old to have comprehensive sex education -- which she says her group would describes as "anti-abstinence and anti-family."
"It's promoting, in their words, all sorts of different kinds of sex with a variety of different partners," she laments, "and not at all...preserving the idea that marriage is the only appropriate and healthy place for a sexual relationship."
Monahan says Planned Parenthood benefits from many funding streams in the government. In fact, according to the group's latest financial records in 2007, it received $350 million in local, state, and federal funding, and performed more than 300,000 abortions.
Contact: Bill Bumpas
Source: OneNewsNowDate Published: October 5, 2010
