Two recent times, Planned Parenthood has been caught up in distributing inappropriate ingredients to children, and the country's number one abortion provider has lied to the notion that they are simply interested in “reproductive health.”
Last month, Planned Parenthood distributed sexually explicit coloring books to children at the Kentucky Science Museum. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood, with the enthusiastic cooperation of the library, creates condoms, sexual assistance and graphic sex education materials available to children in California's public libraries. The different responses are reminders of the disparity between coastal elites and “flyover country” residents.
Adult coloring book
On March 21st, the Kentucky Science Center held a Health and Wellness Days event. Over 400 students aged 8 to 13 from Louisville area schools participated.
At the event, Planned Parenthood, which Science Center says, was not invited to participate, but requested permission to do so, but began distributing various materials to the children present. One of the materials was “coloring books that feature many things related to reproductive rights, including penis and breast contours and the blank activities of “Sexlib” about condoms.”
“Several educators working on March 21st said they saw the books being handed out,” Taylor U'sellis, senior manager of marketing and communications at Science Center, told WDRB.
“We immediately stopped distributing the books, as we noticed,” U'sellis told WLKY.
She also claimed that Planned Parenthood had not provided materials to the Science Center in advance upon request, and appeared at the event an hour and a half late, already ongoing at that point. “This made it difficult to evaluate the materials,” she explained.
On March 26th, the Science Center posted on Facebook, “A sincere apologies for distribution of the coloring book at the event (d).”
Read the post “I deeply regret the harm this caused.” “We are taking immediate steps to ensure that all materials distributed at the event are thoroughly reviewed in advance and this partner is no longer welcome at the Science Center.”
Deny and bias
Planned Parenthood's response to the announcement was to deny that anyone had seen it and condemn the controversy against its detractor. Jennifer Allen, head of foreign affairs for Planned Parenthood Regions, including Kentucky, issued a statement on March 26th.
We want to be clear: no coloring books currently available online were distributed at events. Claims suggesting that they are not are false and appear to be part of a coordinated attempt to stir up rage and manufacture controversy.
However, the next day, Allen is forced to eat her words. She admitted that the coloring book was actually distributed to children at the event, but claimed that “staff members” did “carelessly.”
“We apologize for this error and are reviewing internal protocols,” she said. (However, she did not apologise to the unnamed forces who had accused her of causing a false controversy.)
Schedule Library
Descriptions of planned parent-child relationships are easy to swallow if the organization was not simultaneously involved in worse behavior in California.
According to CBS News April 1 (but sadly not April Fool's Day), “Sacramento Public Library is partnering with Planned Parenthood to put sexual health resource cabinets in the library.”
At the time, 12 of the library's 28 branches had “a cabinet with free birth control pills, pregnancy tests, gender edpantets and QR codes in stock, using more resources to direct them to the Planned Parenthood website,” CBS wrote.
If the cabinet was away from the squirrel in a corner of the adult section of the library or in a room only accessible to adults, that is one thing. But no, they are all in open areas that include the library's central hub and “accessible to minors without restrictions, supervision or parental knowledge,” reported LifeNews.com.
All parents interviewed by CBS expressed the same opinion. Cabinets do not belong to a place where children, especially young children, can see them.
“It's a bit shocking,” said parent Michael Reid. “That's not where I think about sex education going on.”
“It seems a bit inappropriate to target children like that,” he added.
Dream Gibson, the mother of two, told CBS that she has no problem with the cabinet access for adults. “I think exploring sexuality is healthy, but for a 4-year-old, it's not necessarily the best,” she said. “I don't think it's necessarily appropriate for anyone to publish it for viewing.”
Defense line
The Kentucky Science Center permanently pushed up planned parent-child relationships after giving children sexually explicit material, but the Sacramento Public Library had a plan to defend planned parent-child cabinets and place them in other branches.
“Libraries are essential to healthy and thriving communities, so having resources for the interests and needs of that community is really important,” Todddeck, Manager of Community Engagement Services, told CBS.
“We want to get rid of the stigma around these resources,” he said.
He also suggested that making cabinets available is similar to putting books on a shelf. However, as LifeNews.com pointed out, the deck “fails (ed)” to admit that the book is not packaged with pregnancy tests or lubricants.
“Public agencies should partner with their parents rather than undermine them,” said Greg Burt, vice president of the California Family Council. “This program is a reckless abandonment of common sense, parental authority, and innocence from childhood.”
However, in California on the left, it's just a small part of the course.
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