Planned Parenthood quietly infiltrates another NY school district

The nation’s number one abortion chain has quietly infiltrated yet another public school district. School board members in Niagara Falls, New York, approved a new sex education curriculum last month that allows Planned Parenthood’s sex education curriculum into its public school classrooms. With a late December vote, the board approved the quick implementation of its Healthy Behavior Program and the Be Proud! Be Responsible! sex education curriculum.

While Schenectady, NY, where Planned Parenthood has already landed in a mud pile of controversy, is across the state from Niagara Falls, the two school systems seem to have much in common. In addition to implementing sex education curriculum with ties to Planned Parenthood, both districts have superintendents who have led the charge to bring these curricula to minors, often without their parents having a full understanding of what they are learning. Live Action News reported on the Schenectady sex education situation just weeks ago, and now Niagara Falls has followed suit by adopting a controversial curriculum, which, ironically, doesn’t even serve the purpose the superintendent says he is aiming to serve: reducing teen pregnancy.

Planned Parenthood-approved sex education is counter-productive

Many parents would take issue with the Be Proud! Be Responsible! curriculum if they knew its content. The curriculum is published by ETR Associates, an “offspring” of Planned Parenthood, as the American Life League has revealed. On the surface, it appears to be a practical tool for schools, helping young people be responsible about avoiding the HIV virus, as its webpage promotes:

This curriculum is focused on reducing HIV risk, not teen pregnancy, but the program began with the Niagara Falls City School District Superintendent, Mark Laurrie, who claimed that the previous abstinence-based sex education courses are not working. Laurrie cited the state’s high teen pregnancy rates. WGRZ reported:

And that’s how the Be Proud! Be Responsible! came to Niagara Falls. According to the information disseminated at the December 21 board meeting, just before the district’s holiday break:

The use of this curriculum to achieve the goal of reducing teen pregnancy is mystifying, however. According to the Be Proud! Be Responsible! Fifth Edition Update list, there’s no focus at all on reducing teen pregnancy.

The question, then, is what is the actual goal of Laurrie and the Niagara Falls district in turning from abstinence-only sex education to letting Planned Parenthood have a place in its classrooms? Even though there’s not a focus on reducing teenage pregnancy in this curriculum, there’s certainly talk of sex.

News organizations report there will be more than just the curriculum. WKBW reports:

However, the Planned Parenthood-connected curriculum was the focus of the board vote. It seems the new curriculum began with some local teenagers. The Buffalo News reports on students who asked for a new sex education program. The paper reports:

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With that said, Laurrie also shows he has not looked very far away from under the sand, because, as Live Action News reported in 2016, these programs don’t actually work, according the the HHS:

Planned Parenthood’s version of sex education gives dangerous advice to teens

Planned Parenthood isn’t exactly known for dispensing great and healthy sexual advice to teens. In a Live Action investigation, undercover investigators found Planned Parenthood employees encouraging teens to try risky sexual practices like accessing porn and participating in BDSM:

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With all of this in mind, it’s curious why the district would blindly adopt a curriculum that is part of a group of products  shown to be not only ineffective, but counterproductive. Despite the assertions of Planned Parenthood to the contrary, inviting the abortion giant’s presence in schools actually increases sexual activity, according to the evidence. Still, Planned Parenthood’s affiliate in New York insist the evidence says their programs do work.

The key phrase is “evidence-based,” said [Christopher] Spicer, [vice president of programs for Planned Parenthood of Western and Central New York] of Planned Parenthood. Spicer’s affiliate “sends representatives to 134 schools between Buffalo and Syracuse to talk to classes and present demonstrations of contraceptive use, such as how to apply a condom or insert an intrauterine device,” The Buffalo News reports.

Both the Planned Parenthood representative and Niagara Falls Superintendent Laurrie note that there is an opt-out clause for parents to keep their children out of Planned Parenthood supported classes, but that doesn’t happen much, The Buffalo News reports:

Indeed, the Niagara Falls proposal included this statement:

Few parents would say no to that, on the surface. What parent would not want their child be to safe from AIDS? It’s only when they dig in deeper that that they discover what’s actually in the curriculum that Niagara Falls began teaching this year. The district is misleading parents into believing that students are going to learn about avoiding the HIV virus, but they don’t realize the fringe lesson Planned Parenthood is always sure to include.

For example, in a sample lesson provided by the adopted curriculum, students play a game in which they decide which sexual behavior is risky. Certain sexual behaviors are deemed “Green Light” behaviors, which include behaviors most parents would likely not want their children to be discussing in a lesson, such as saying that if two people are virgins and have protected sex, it’s a “Green Light, as is “Body Rubbing/Grinding.”

The reality of this opt-out clause is that many parents won’t know there is something to even consider. Until now, the district had been using an abstinence-only curriculum. Parents who knew that would not likely be expecting that mid-year, the day before the holiday break, the abstinence-only curriculum would suddenly be turned into a curriculum that has ties with Planned Parenthood. And unless the parents actually know to take time and file a written request with the district over the Christmas holiday break, their students will be subjected to this curriculum in February. At the pre-Christmas board meeting where the curriculum was approved 8-1, one parent spoke out about it. As WGRZ reported, Gary Boisclair said, “Anybody who is connected with Planned Parenthood is connected with each and every act that Planned Parenthood does.”

The lone vote against the curriculum was the board president, who had indicated he was opposed to it in earlier discussions, as The Buffalo News reported in November:

Niagara Falls City School District has quietly changed from abstinence-only education to a sex education program that, as one of its components, allows Planned Parenthood to walk in the school and inflict its questionable moral code on students, while parents think their children are simply learning how to prevent getting HIV. This program isn’t about reducing teenage pregnancy; rather, it’s about encouraging the normalization of all sorts of sexual behavior, so long as the participants “use a condom.” Many ways exist to teach HIV prevention, which is a valid health education lesson, but letting the abortion corporation’s tentacles reach into sex education lessons is more like paying for a walking advertisement. Planned Parenthood knows if it can reach teenagers, it might have customers for years to come. And the Niagara Falls City School District, and its superintendent Mark Laurrie, have played right into the abortion corporation’s hands.