Girl Scouts Distribute Planned Parenthood Sex Guide at United Nations Meeting

[Dos Equis]

How shocking.  I can't believe my tax dollar support Planned Parenthood. 

Girl Scouts Distribute Planned Parenthood Sex Guide at United Nations Meeting
by Colleen Egan (Subscribe to Colleen Egan's posts) Mar 17th 2010

The World Association of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides hosted a "no-adults-welcome panel" at the United Nations this week, where Planned Parenthood was allowed to distribute a sex guide during the annual UN Commission on the Status of Women.

The "Happy, Healthy and Hot" (PDF) brochure is geared towards young people living with HIV and encourages them to explore their sexuality: "Masturbation is a great way to find out more about your body and what you find sexually stimulating." The guide also encourages young people to "Talk about or act out your fantasies. Talk dirty to them."

The brochure says national laws requiring HIV-positive people to reveal their status to their partner(s) "violate the rights of people living with HIV" and calls for advocacy to "change laws that violate your rights," C-FAM reports.

Planned Parenthood's involvement has drawn the ire of some conservative organizations. Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America tells C-FAM, "Governments and NGOs should be aware of Planned Parenthood's insidious plan to work with UN agencies and girls' organizations in order to profit from encouraging kids to be sexually active."
 
The Girl Scouts weren't alone in their efforts to promote sex education and HIV issues. The heads of several powerful UN agencies at CSW last week released a "UN Joint Statement" under the name of the "UN Adolescent Girls Task Force," which calls for their agencies to promote and support programs "that empower ... adolescent girls, particularly those aged 10 to 14 years," C-FAM reports, and a priority for empowerment is ensuring access to "life-skills based sexuality education, HIV prevention, and sexual and reproductive health."

The UN Population Fund and the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization also recently co-sponsored controversial curriculum that included teaching children as young as five to be sexually active and training adolescents to advocate for abortion.

http://www.parentdish.com/2010/03/17/girl-scouts-distribute-planned-parenthood-sex-guide-at-united-na/

[Straw Man]

I can't believe my tax dollars go to faith based initiatives and abstinance only training

I'd be happier having all those dollars go to free abortions for anyone who wanted them

that would be a much better way to spend the money

at least we'd get something of value rather than just pissing it away and getting nothing in return (ok - I guess we have a generation of girls who think oral/anal sexi is not really sex is something of value)

[BodyProSite]

should be left up to the parents,  planned parenthood is a crock, and a bunch of enablers that allow people to not be accountable for any of their actions.