Planned Parenthood is still pushing its sex-education agenda despite past failures.
The abortion giant recently took to Facebook, saying “Sex Education Shouldn’t Be Political” and claiming “Research shows that evidence-based sex education gives young people the information and skills they need to grow up safe and healthy.”
Arkansas has been down this road before, and we know from experience that Planned Parenthood’s comprehensive sex-education does not work.
In the 1980s and 1990s, public officials in Arkansas promoted comprehensive sex-education, but the programs failed to have a meaningful impact on teen pregnancy and abortion in the state.
But in 1997 the Arkansas Legislature and Governor Mike Huckabee began promoting abstinence education in Arkansas.
From 1997 to 2005, Arkansas’ teen birthrate decreased 17%, and Arkansas’ teen abortion rate plummeted a staggering 48%.
Governor Huckabee’s abstinence education model was so successful in Arkansas that it drew national recognition.
Family Council was pleased to support Arkansas’ good abstinence education program. The program continued into the early 2000s, but was gradually scaled back as a result of budget cuts and changes in state and federal government.
After President Obama’s election in 2008, the Obama Administration gave Planned Parenthood millions of dollars in funding for “evidence based” teen pregnancy prevention programs.
Experts later found students who went through Planned Parenthood’s sex-education program were often more likely to become pregnant or cause a pregnancy afterwards.
In other words, Planned Parenthood’s multimillion dollar sex-education program did exactly the opposite of what it was intended to do.
Those are just some of the reasons Family Council opposes Planned Parenthood’s approach to comprehensive sex-education.
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