Planned Parenthood’s PAC Raises $4,500+ in Arkansas: Report

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Last week the Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes Arkansas political action committee reported that it has raised $4,558.29 since the beginning of the year.

The report reveals that Planned Parenthood’s Arkansas PAC received much of its financial support from retirees living in Little Rock.

All told, Planned Parenthood has approximately $18,000 on hand.

Planned Parenthood has pledged to spend at least $45 million on elections in 2020.

The group’s goal is to defeat President Trump, flip the U.S. Senate, maintain Democratic control of the House of Representatives, and support liberal candidates in state races.

In 2018 Planned Parenthood’s political action committee in Arkansas received $10,000 from Planned Parenthood’s main office in New York.

The PAC gave some of that money to candidates running against Rep. Carlton Wing (R – North Little Rock), Rep. Jim Sorvillo (R – Little Rock), Rep. Mark Lowery (R – Maumelle), and Sen. Jason Rapert (R – Conway).

States like Arkansas are leading the fight to protect unborn children, and even many liberal pundits agree it’s only a matter of time before the U.S. Supreme Court dismantles the Roe v. Wade ruling.

Perhaps that is why Planned Parenthood is poised to spend so much money on the 2020 elections.

Pollsters have consistently found voters do not agree with Planned Parenthood’s radical pro-abortion policies.

We are successfully building a culture that values unborn children, but we still have a lot of work left to do.

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Harvard Professor Calls for “Presumptive Ban” on Home Schooling

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In an article published in the May-June issue of Harvard Magazine, professor Elizabeth Bartholet said there ought to be a “presumptive ban” on home schooling nationwide and that letting parents educate their children at home could help fuel white supremacy.

The article is filled with so much incorrect information that it is hard to know where to begin.

Among other things, Professor Bartholet claims:

  • Many home schoolers are “extreme religious ideologues”
  • Home schooled children face an increased risk of child abuse
  • Home schooled children are at risk of receiving a sub-par education

We know from experience that home schoolers come from all sorts of faiths and backgrounds.

There is no evidence suggesting that children who are home schooled are likely to be abused.

And the article fails to mention that home schoolers have had no trouble getting into Harvard University itself.

In 2015 Business Insider profiled one Harvard student who was home schooled, saying,

While homeschoolers might still live on the margins of the US education system — they only make up 3.4% of America’s student body — the leading research suggests the education they receive is second-to-none. 

In 2018 the Harvard Gazette profiled three students who were home schooled before being accepted by the Ivy League institution.

In Arkansas, home schoolers have routinely outperformed their public school counterparts on standardized testing.

In 2009, Arkansas’ home schoolers performed better on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills than 61% – 80% of the students who took that test, nationwide.

According to the 2013-2014 Home School Report from the Arkansas Department of Education, in 2014 home schoolers in grades 3 – 9 scored anywhere from the 51st percentile to the 65th percentile on that same test.

In fact, home schoolers in Arkansas have performed so well on standardized tests that the Arkansas Legislature ended state-mandated home school testing in 2015.

It’s a shame Harvard Magazine would publish such a one-sided piece against home schooling.

At a time when practically everyone in America is educating their children at home as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, calling for a ban on home schooling seems a little out of touch, to say the least.

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