Planned Parenthood: To some – a reproductive health care and sexual education provider, helping millions of young adults and vulnerable low income families. To others – a barbaric institution that ends the lives of hundreds of thousands of unborn babies every year. It has been estimated that close to 7 million abortions have been performed by Planned Parenthood since it was founded 100 years ago.
Planned Parenthood is also funded by the government, which leads those in the second group baying even more loudly for their blood. According to Planned Parenthood, those federal funds don’t pay for abortions, but are rather Medicaid (the government-funded health insurance plan for people with low incomes) reimbursements.
Whatever your view on abortion, the law of the land is that it is legal in every state, although restrictions vary from state to state with regard to late term abortion, parental consent etc. It certainly can’t be true for every case, but can be assumed that the majority of the women seeking abortions are adults (18 years and older). They are pregnant as a consequence of their actions and they have the legal right to terminate their pregnancy if they so wish, and Planned Parenthood will gladly provide them with that service.
But there is a group that Planned Parenthood are targeting that are not as capable of making such decisions just yet. Preschoolers. Planned Parenthood’s new guidelines for educating preschoolers includes entire sections about transgenderism and masturbation. If you have a 3 or 4 year old you may be wondering whether what you’ve just read is one big type-o. Unfortunately not.
We recently published an article about developments in the area of sex education in France, which resembles the line being taken by Planned Parenthood. A group of professionals in France have labelled the new measures and ‘dangerous, intrusive and harmful to the development in young children‘.
Another introduction to the Planned Parenthood education for preschoolers is transgenderism: “Gender identity isn’t about what kind of anatomy you have”, with a whole section dedicated to how to “support your child in making their own (gender) choices”. According to the The Christian Post, their new parenting guidelines have come at a time when some Planned Parenthood clinics have begun to provide transgender hormone services, such as male-to-female and female-to-male hormone therapies.
This is another point the French child-professionals have opposed very strongly. They denounce the teaching of gender ideology which they say has no scientific basis. Planned Parenthood doesn’t back up any of their claims with science, and a recent disturbing report by paediatrician and president of the American College of Pediatricians, Michelle Cretella, has drawn attention to the way in which children who express ‘gender dysphoria’ are being treated today. This is in stark contrast to how they were treated a few years ago, and the long term effects this could have on them psychologically and physically. She goes so far as to say that “transgender ideology is producing large scale child abuse”.
The need to protect our innocent children from the system of the world has never been greater. But we need not fear – we have Jesus in our hearts and the Holy Spirit as our guide. If we accept God’s Word as truth and leave no room for the ‘wisdom of men’, our children will grow to “give us comfort and delight our souls”!
Compiled by Louise Carter
