"An Unplanned Education"
Posted by Roger on Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Yesterday, I read the following article on the National Review web site. I thought it was good, and I discovered that our very own Aurora Beacon news actually printed the story too. Thanks, Beacon News! Perhaps keeping my subscription is worthwhile?
Here's a couple excepts:
An Unplanned Education
(by Kathryn Jean Lopez)
Planned Parenthood took me “Down There” and exposed it all. The self-evident wrongheadedness of their thinking, that is.
A new campaign waged by the abortion provider is as crass as its name suggests. But it is more than that. It is an expose — in that most pithy and au courant of forms, web video — of why we get nowhere in America when we talk about sex education.
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And therein lies the problem with groups like Planned Parenthood — and with way too much of pop culture. For Planned Parenthood and the anything-goes ethos it represents, young people are always going to have sex. In their worldview, there’s no reason for living if you’re not going to mimic the rutting bachelorettes of Sex and the City. What could you possibly do to have a successful, happy life if it doesn’t involve going through a condom a day?
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The bottom line is that we need to be doing more than simply saying, “don’t have sex.” Of course that won’t work. Teens are not stupid; they’re human and know there’s something appealing about it, and they shouldn’t be told otherwise. But they should understand that there’s more to want, and that they should hold out for more — for love, commitment, and fulfillment.
I applaud the author of this article. Well written and well thought out. We need to stop thinking of teens as mindless hormones and help them to become all that they can be!
Here's the link again: An Unplanned Education
(by Kathryn Jean Lopez)
God Bless,
Roger
I read this yesterday and was amazed that it got printed by the Beacon. Please everyone call and thank them for printing it. If you don't have a strong stomach you may not want to see the newest PP website she was talking about. Just when you thought they could not get worse with Teenwire.com they come up with the vilest of videos on this new website. I plan to thank Kathryn Lopez for her editorial as well. PPites are exposed for who they really are. How are they are going to profit from promoting dangerous, promiscuous, sexual behavior? By selling them the pills, condoms, dental dams, IUDs, shots, cauterize the HPV warts, cone biopsy the HPV cancer lesions, treat the symptoms of incurable herpes breakouts and WHEN their so-called birth control fails sell them abortions as well at $400-$500 a pop.
August 12th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Let it also be known that Planned Parenthood of Columbia/Willamette, which sponsors the "Take Care Down There" site, receives Title X funding.
Our tax dollars at work—thanks, Uncle Sam!
August 12th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
We might also consider contacting the Batavia Library Board and thank them for removing the Teenwire link from their young adults section.
August 12th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
a Stanek to Expose "Born Alive Infants Protection Act" on FoxNews Hannity's America on Sunday August 24, 2008 at 8PM Central Time..
August 15th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Wow, this just sounds like a porn site, and our tax dolars pay for this? Just keep exposeing Planned Parenthood for what it is and always has been. I wonder if the Mayor reads the Beacon?
August 19th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
a Jill Stanek Will Be on "Hannity & Colmes" Tonight! (8/20/08) - Born Alive Infants Protection Act (MUST SEE TV!).
Mike
August 20th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
I was just sent this e-mail:
I just received a phone call from someone I know asking for prayers for a teenage girl who is being forced by her parents to have an abortion. I was told that this girl has an appointment for the abortion at the Planned Parenthood in Aurora this Friday (8/29/2008). Will you pray that this baby will be saved from abortion and for the needs of the girl and her parents?
August 26th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
it would be better with other languages support, but thanks..
September 5th, 2008 at 6:30 pm