Planned Parenthood Creates Sex Ed Program

Planned Parenthood has come up with a report called Stand & Deliver. This report slams various religions like Catholicism, as well as the Islamic religion saying, "Young people's sexuality is still contentious for many religious institutions. Fundamentalist and other religious groups — the Catholic Church and madrasas (Islamic Schools) for example — have imposed tremendous barriers that prevent young people, particularly, from obtaining information and services related to sex and reproduction. Currently, many religious teachings deny the pleasurable and positive aspects of sex."So they want to bring this sex education in schools. Their report would highlight the positive and negative aspects of sex, including topics such as homo and heterosexuality, transgender and bisexuality, abortion, contraceptives, masturbation and abstinence. This report says Planned Parenthood would teach this stuff to children as young as 10 years old. This report is supposed to show sexuality a "positive force for change and development, as a source of pleasure, an embodiment of human rights and an expression of self." However, Conservatives and Religious groups are speaking out against this new idea. Ed Mechamn, spokesman for New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, said that this program is part of an effort to get children to reject traditional values and accept a liberal American-European view. He also said that religions like Catholicism and Islam teach sex as part of a much bigger picture and that Planned Parenthood was trying to de-link sex from traditional values. Other Conservatives feel that this will undermine the roll of Mom and Dad in the family.

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My Opinion: I feel that sex education is ok. I feel that abstinence is one of the best ways. I feel that older children and teens should be informed about all fo the options available to them, including the positive and negative aspects of sex. I just don't know that 10 year olds need to know some of this stuff. People need to know of unintended consequences. They also need to know that sex is emotional as well as physical and that sex is not just a (albeit fun) bodily function. Sex should be saved for marriage, or in the least, for someone you deeply love and care about. Casual sex is bad and takes that idea of emotional closeness out of sex. I do feel that this can undermine the roll of parents telling their kids about sex, but then how many parents actually comprehensively tell their children all about sex?