Girl Scouts & Planned Parenthood
Girl Scouts OK Pro-Abortion Planned Parenthood Sex Guide at United Nations
by Terrence McKeegan, J.D.
LifeNews.com Note: Terrence McKeegan writes for the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute. This article originally appeared in the pro-life group's Friday Fax publication and is used with permission.
New York, NY (LifeNews.com/CFAM) -- The World Association of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides hosted a no-adults-welcome panel at the United Nations this week where Planned Parenthood was allowed to distribute a brochure entitled “Healthy, Happy and Hot.” The event was part of the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) which concludes this week.
The brochure, aimed at young people living with HIV, contains explicit and graphic details on sex, as well as the promotion of casual sex in many forms. The brochure claims, “Many people think sex is just about vaginal or anal intercourse… But, there are lots of different ways to have sex and lots of different types of sex. There is no right or wrong way to have sex. Just have fun, explore and be yourself!”
The brochure goes on to encourage young people to “Improve your sex life by getting to know your own body. Play with yourself! Masturbation is a great way to find out more about your body and what you find sexually stimulating. Mix things up by using different kinds of touch from very soft to hard. Talk about or act out your fantasies. Talk dirty to them.”
The brochure also tells students that national laws requiring HIV-positive people to reveal their status to their partner(s) “violate the rights of people living with HIV” and calls for advocacy to “change laws that violate your rights.” It explains, “There are many reasons that people do not share their HIV status. … They may worry that people will find out something else they have kept secret, like they are using injecting drugs, having sex outside of a marriage or having sex with people of the same gender.”
The Girl Scouts, along with the YMCA have been co-moderating a young women’s caucus that included an “Intergenerational Conversation” side event on “universal access” and “reproductive health.” One recent Girl Scout project “aims at securing the right of women, men and adolescents aged between ten and twenty-five, to better reproductive and sexual health.”??
Also at CSW last week, the heads of various powerful UN agencies including the UN Population Fund, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), UN Children's Fund and the World Health Organization released a “UN Joint Statement” under the name of the “UN Adolescent Girls Task Force,” which calls for their agencies to promote and support programs “that empower … adolescent girls, particularly those aged 10 to 14 years.”
One of the chief priorities for empowerment is ensuring access to “life-skills based sexuality education, HIV prevention, and sexual and reproductive health.”
The New York Times recently reported that UN Population Fund had co-sponsored a very controversial curriculum with UNESCO, that included teaching children as young as five to be sexually active and training adolescents to advocate for abortion.
Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women of America told the Friday Fax, “Governments and NGOs should be aware of Planned Parenthood’s insidious plan to work with UN agencies and girls’ organizations in order to profit from encouraging kids to be sexually active.”
For the past few years, I
Fri, 03/12/2010 - 2:11am — Anonymous (not verified)For the past few years, I contemplated getting re-involved with the GirlScoutsUSA because of the friends I made growing up, all the fun we had together and the life skills I learned and still often use in my adult life, but NOT after reading articles related to the GirlScouts and the extremely leftist, militant feminist agenda UNESCO.
ANY parent(s) that ALLOW their girls and young children to become involved in these organizations anymore, I'm afraid, is ASKING for trouble should they NOT be thoroughly informed AND involved in their child[ren]'s activities!
UNESCO and PP want to indoctrinate children as young as FIVE YEARS OLD in sexual activity and train young teenagers to be militant pro-abortion advocates?!?
Can someone please explain exactly WHAT ARE PARENTS THINKING, TO EVEN THINK ABOUT HAVING THEIR CHILDREN WITHIN RANGE OF THIS POISON?!?
If these organizations are willing to indoctrinate the youngest and most impressionable amongst us, no one and/or anything is OFF LIMITS!
The even go so far as to insist(DEMAND even?!?)that kids and others explain/justify lying/covering-up HIV status.
I'm all for this if these militants are ready, willing and able to pay for the end results of such poisonous thinking and behaviors directly out of their own pockets and no one else's, of which I doubt will EVER happen, as taking/accepting responsibility for their own choices, decisons and actions seems to be something UNESCO and PlannedParenthood aren't exactly known for!
If anyone sincerely believes that PP or UNESCO or the painfully militant feminist GirlScoutsUSA have our childrens' best interests @ heart, I strongly suggest they think, re-think and think again!
Whether one chooses to believe or not, I'll end this post by saying May God have mercy on our intentionally wayward and excuse-making souls, because the time we're going to reap the consequences of our intentional ignorance, excuse-making and social experimenting is fastly approaching and we can't in all honesty or seriousness say we DIDN'T see it coming!
Well said!!!!!!!
Fri, 03/12/2010 - 11:21am — A 40 Days Prayer Partner (not verified)Well said!!!!!!!
I am officially boycotting
Wed, 03/17/2010 - 4:43pm — Anonymous (not verified)I am officially boycotting the Girl Scouts from now on. If they as an organization want to pervert our young daughters then they have to be stopped and the only way I know how is to hit them in the pocket book and tell everyone I can about their scuzzy and immoral agenda.
@ a local business I
Sat, 04/10/2010 - 10:37pm — Sad In Rockford (not verified)@ a local business I patronize on a regular basis someone or their daughter was selling Girl Scout cookies and for the first time ever, I [very respectfully] declined and even snubbed(!!) our beloved cookies because of what these cookies stand for and I as a woman and consumer REFUSE to purchase something knowingly that funds such a radical agenda as the GirlScoutsUSA.
Again, it's all the more sad for me personally because I was a Brownie and Girl Scout and I have such fond memories of such from my childhood.
But, sadly, NOT ANYMORE!
AMERICA & PARENTS, WAKE THE HELL UP!!!!!
Thanks for bringing these
Tue, 04/12/2011 - 3:22am — Christy V (not verified)Thanks for bringing these concerns to light. Girl Scouts new printed materials released in January 2011, is promoting some very disturbing materials to girls including referring girls to mediamatters.com, and womensmediacenter.com where girls can find *live* links to 27 pro-abortion websites. My teenage daughter and I were recently interviewed on EWTN regarding the most recent issues with GSUSA (link to listen http://ewtn.edgeboss.net/download/ewtn/audiolibrary/gf_04022011.mp3 ) Also, check out http://www.honestgirlscouts.com and http://www.girlscoutswhy.com for more information.
A great Catholic alternative
Thu, 01/12/2012 - 12:49pm — Joan (not verified)A great Catholic alternative to Girl Scouts is Little Flowers Girls' Club. Founded by Rachel Watkins, a homeschool mom of 11, it is a virtue based program that reinforces a pro-life world view.
Go to: www.littleflowersgirlsclub.com for more information.
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