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Pro-life and Christian advocacy groups are bringing to light what they consider the dangers of Planned Parenthood\u2019s sex education program, which is designed to be taught to children under and over 10. The pro-life group American Life League<\/a> has shared the curriculum\u2019s toolkit<\/a>, which outlines for teachers the important information to give out to their students for \u201ccomprehensive sex education\u201d (CSE). For children under 10, some of the \u201ckey learnings\u201d include attractions for people with \u201cdiverse gender identities,\u201d sexual activity is found in different relationships like marriage, dating, and sex work, and touching your body for pleasure should be done in privacy. The curriculum also states that teaching children to be abstinent until marriage is \u201cunrealistic\u201d because \u201cNot everyone will choose to get married, and many countries have restrictions on who is able to get married (for example, members of same sex relationships).\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPublic schools are allowing the organization that killed almost 393,000 preborn children by abortion in 2023 unfettered access to thousands of elementary, middle, and high school students in their classrooms and it is spending taxpayer dollars to do so,\u201d stated<\/a> Katie Brown, American Life League\u2019s national director. The group also highlighted Planned Parenthood\u2019s abortion curriculum for schools, which encourages students to be advocates for abortion access and describes abortion as a common medical procedure. In the CSE, children under 10 have an activity entitled \u201cWalking in her shoes: the decision to end a pregnancy\u201d to discuss why women and girls have abortions. American Life League believes Planned Parenthood promotes promiscuous lifestyles to line its own pockets with the money for the abortions that come from unwanted pregnancies.<\/p>\n

Writing for Live Action, former sex worker Bettina di Flore slammed the curriculum\u2019s promotion of sex work. \u201cAs a former prostitute and someone who cares deeply about children, I find this notion highly objectionable. I know from personal experience that the world of so-called \u2018commercial sex work\u2019 is founded on exploitation and is devoid of true happiness \u2013 a world which nobody with children\u2019s legitimate best interests at heart should wish to promote, or even condone, to these innocents,\u201d wrote di Flore<\/a>. \u201cSimply because sex occurs does not mean there is true intimacy. \u2018Intimacy\u2019 is defined as \u2018a close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person.\u2019 There can be no true closeness or familiarity in a relationship where, most often, the individuals involved don\u2019t even know one another\u2019s real names,\u201d she later added. \u00a0Michele Hendrickson, Students for Life of America’s director, told The Christian Post<\/em><\/a> that it\u2019s important for parents to be aware of what is being taught in their children\u2019s schools. \u201cThe most important thing you can do is be active at your school board,” she said. “Those are open meetings for a reason; they want to hear from parents.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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