A story recently published in the National Catholic Register features STOPP and several ALL Associate groups engaged in getting Planned Parenthood out of schools and communities. It highlights our detailed plan to empower parents to get Planned Parenthood out of local schools.

In an article entitled “Parents Take Battle with Planned Parenthood to Next Level,” author Jo Garcia-Cobb details the growing grassroots opposition to PP’s “comprehensive sex education” that targets children and teens in public schools.

She points to American Life League’s video, Hooking Kids on Sex, as being a factor in fueling a growing outrage against PP’s sex education. Since it was released in January, the video has had in excess of 700,000 viewings over multiple websites.

In the article, Valerie Huber, of the National Abstinence Education Association, points out the Obama administration’s obsession with CSE, saying that for every dollar allocated for sexual risk avoidance (abstinence) education, 16 dollars are spent on comprehensive sex education programs. In addition, Garcia-Cobb cites the Guttmacher Institute’s trumpeting of “many billions of dollars in new funding for community health centers, which provide family-planning services and other basic reproductive healthcare to their clients, and establishes a dedicated $50 million yearly funding stream for school-based health centers, many of which provide contraceptive care to students in need.”

Corinne Kelly, a high school student who worked with ALL Associate group South Texas STOPP to get Planned Parenthood out of the public schools in the Corpus Christi area, and Kristie Rutledge of Rockport, Texas, who was instrumental in the work of South Texas STOPP and continues to oppose Planned Parenthood and its sex ed programs, are also quoted. Rutledge drew the bottom line of the story, saying: “The casual sex, hook-up culture that is promoted in comprehensive sex-education programs in our schools drives a wedge between parents and their children and is leading to the destruction of families and society at large. Parents have the duty to be the primary educators of their children, not Planned Parenthood. This is our battle.”