In This Issue

• Parents, beware: Planned Parenthood pushing TOP program
• Activist judges usurping states' rights; blocking Planned Parenthood defunding
• Bringing Jesus to Planned Parenthood through Mary: Mega Shield
• North Platte Nebraska says NO to Planned Parenthood

With both parents working and the harried lifestyle that invariably follows when mom heads off to work every day, the question arises: Who is minding the children? Enter Planned Parenthood, pushing wheelbarrows of money provided to it by the federal government—money derived from the toil of those parents who are struggling to provide the best life they can for their children.

Planned Parenthood is using this money to partner with school districts in its disgusting “comprehensive” sex education programs, banking on the fact that parents are too busy making a living to do a thorough examination of what their children are being taught at school. One of those programs is TOP (Teen Outreach Program), which is spreading throughout the nation at an alarming rate.

Obamacare is funneling $75 million annually into a cesspool referred to as PREP education (Personal Responsibility Education Program), which must be used exclusively for Planned Parenthood-style “comprehensive” sex ed programs. More than one-fourth of the funds—$20 million—has been awarded to a coalition of six Planned Parenthood affiliates, operating under the name Northwest Coalition for Adolescent Health, to implement the TOP program across Montana, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska at over 50 sites. We reported on the TOP program in Oregon schools recently, where Planned Parenthood is paying children cash incentives to participate.

A Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services document says Wyman’s TOP™ is in over 400 organizations and schools in the United States, Virgin Islands, and the United Kingdom.

The TOP program claims to have gone through rigorous evaluation and is pushed using statistics and grants that entice school districts to say “yes” without even looking at the full program.

The claims about TOP from the Planned Parenthood of Columbia Willamette website include these results:

• 53 percent reduction in the risk of teen pregnancy or fathering a child
• 52 percent reduction in the risk of school suspension
• 60 percent reduction in the risk of course failure

Those statistics are provided by a 2001 report from Susan Philliber, of Philliber Research Associates, who is tied to Planned Parenthood through other evaluation projects. (Note: $6.5 million of the PREP money is set aside for such demonstration and evaluations.) She is also tied to Planned Parenthood through evaluation of the disgusting “Bedsider” program, which we discuss in more detail here. According to Philliber’s website, her company is “often sought as a trainer to conduct workshops on ‘what works’ in teen pregnancy prevention or to train programs to evaluate their work.”

A report by the Promising Practices Network regarding the evaluation methods of Philliber, et al., calls into question the reliability of the statistics being used to promote TOP.

Planned Parenthood sex education feeds its abortion, contraception, and STD treatment business. Its sex programs are really the incarnation of its secular humanist plan to steal the innocence of our children, divide families by driving a wedge between parents and children at a very early age, and get kids hooked on sex, using the hard-earned money of their parents to do so.

Parents, grandparents, pastors, and all those who care about children and the survival of our society: Today is the day to go to the local school—be it public or private—and do a thorough investigation about what your children are being taught about human sexuality in all courses across the curriculum. What you find could be the key to saving hundreds of thousands of children from lives of sexual enslavement that prevents them from finding and living God’s plan for their lives.

Jim Sedlak points out in a recent article the threat posed by these school-based programs and the steps parents should take to oust them:

• Investigate what is happening in YOUR school.
• Document any problems you find.
• Alert other parents to the problems.
• Meet with school officials to get the problems out.
• If the school officials refuse to listen, take your complaints to the school board.
• Conduct a peaceful, respectful campaign until the problems are gone.

For specific instructions, read Jim’s book Parent Power!! which is available online at no cost.

Recently, we reported a huge victory in Houston, where we have been working with parents and other concerned citizens to oust It’s Your Game: Keep it Real—another government funded program.

Please e-mail us at [email protected] if you need help in fighting Planned Parenthood in your local schools.

October has been a busy month for judges overstepping states’ rights in an attempt to force them to continue funding Planned Parenthood. After the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said recently that Texas can indeed defund Planned Parenthood, the abortion giant filed yet another lawsuit, this time before a state district judge, who has enjoined the state of Texas from defunding PP pending a November hearing.

It is being reported that the judge announced from the bench that she is a Planned Parenthood supporter—and failed to recuse herself—before ruling in favor of the abortion organization.

The L.A. Times quoted Texas governor Rick Perry, who showed no signs of wavering in his opposition to Planned Parenthood:

“If there was ever any doubt that Planned Parenthood is more concerned about its own interests than those of Texas women, there is no longer,” Perry said in a statement Friday. “Having lost on its constitutional claims, Planned Parenthood has now turned to Travis County judges in a desperate effort to find some way to keep making money off Texas taxpayers. In Texas, we’ve chosen to protect innocent life. We will keep fighting for life, and we will ultimately prevail.”

Additionally, on October 19, a federal judge temporarily blocked the state of Arizona from defunding Planned Parenthood.

Blocking defunding efforts in Indiana, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily upheld an injunction on October 23 that prevents the state from blocking Planned Parenthood’s participation in the Medicaid program, pending a trial on the merits of the case.

It is time for the federal government to step out of decisions that rightly belong to the states. In the meantime, states that keep fighting for their rights are paving the way for the defunding of Planned Parenthood across the nation. Without taxpayer money, the abortion giant will fall.

See our proven plan for defeating public funding of Planned Parenthood here.

Students from the Shield of Roses pro-life group at Christendom College have been a mainstay outside the Planned Parenthood downtown abortion facility in Washington, D.C. for 12 years.

On October 27, they reached a new level of awesomeness when they brought more than 225 students to pray outside the facility.

According to a LifeSiteNews.com article:

Students wake up early on “Mega Shield” Saturdays to attend the 7:30 a.m. Mass, after which they load into private vehicles and college vans for the 75 mile drive to Washington. They arrive at the Planned Parenthood abortion facility at around 9:30 a.m. where they kneel on the grass in front of the clinic and pray four rosaries and a Chaplet of Divine Mercy, as well as sing some Marian hymns, before heading back to the college campus in Front Royal.

In addition to the large Mega Shield event each year, around 20 students show up at the Planned Parenthood facility every week during the school year to pray. Kudos to these committed students who Bring Jesus to Planned Parenthood through Mary. Their prayer presence, and that of others who join them, ensures that Planned Parenthood’s days are numbered.

Ed Reiker appeared before the North Platte, Nebraska, city council recently and presented a petition bearing almost 3,000 signatures of people who say that Planned Parenthood should not be allowed in their community.

Reiker expounded on Planned Parenthood’s racism, a billion dollar Medicaid fraud lawsuit against the abortion giant in Iowa, the misleading and inaccurate information it provides to women, and the risks it poses to the health of women. He also commented on the huge amounts of money the organization receives from the government, the high percentage of Planned Parenthood clients seeking pregnancy related services who end up being sold abortions, and the dangers of Planned Parenthood’s promotion of promiscuity to teens.

STOPP is assisting pro-life advocates in Nebraska who have organized a statewide effort to stop the expansion of Planned Parenthood in the Cornhusker state. Kudos to the Western Nebraska Community for Life for all it is doing to oppose Planned Parenthood.