Video: Feds Still Giving Money to Planned Parenthood
The federal government is still giving Planned Parenthood millions of dollars to teach sex education courses that failed to reduce teen pregnancy.
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Five Facts About Planned Parenthood in Arkansas
Planned Parenthood is the nation’s leading abortionist.
The group made headlines a few years ago after a series of undercover videos allegedly showed top Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of organs and tissue harvest from the bodies of aborted babies.
Below are a few things to know about Planned Parenthood’s recent activities in Arkansas.
Planned Parenthood Kills Hundreds of Unborn Babies in Arkansas Every Year
Planned Parenthood performs chemical abortions using RU-486 at its Little Rock facility.
Family Council estimates that Planned Parenthood is responsible for approximately 70% of all chemical abortions in Arkansas.
That means that Planned Parenthood performed upwards of 850 – 900 drug-induced abortions in 2019.
While surgical abortion has been on the decline in Arkansas since 2014, chemical abortions have risen, and most of these chemical abortions appear to be occurring at Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood’s Facility in Fayetteville Has Been Closed for Over a Year
On July 25, 2019, Planned Parenthood closed its abortion facility in Fayetteville.
The abortionist’s landlord reportedly opted not to renew Planned Parenthood’s lease in 2019. One year later, the group still has not reopened in Northwest Arkansas.
That means the only Planned Parenthood facility remaining in Arkansas is located in Little Rock.
Planned Parenthood’s Affiliate Responsible for Arkansas Recently Laid Off Three Dozen Employees
Planned Parenthood Great Plains is the affiliate that oversees abortion facilities in Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
The group recently cut thirty-six employees who worked closely with its headquarters.
The layoffs reportedly were the result of budget problems stemming from COVID-19.
However, Planned Parenthood apparently has not cut staff at its abortion facilities.
Planned Parenthood Has Endorsed Nine Candidates Running for Office in Arkansas
Two of Planned Parenthood’s political action committees — Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes Arkansas and Planned Parenthood Action Fund — have endorsed candidates running for office in Arkansas in 2020.
The candidates are:
- Joyce Elliott for 2nd Congressional District
- Celeste Williams for 3rd Congressional District
- Clarke Tucker for Arkansas Senate District 32
- Suzie Bell for Arkansas House District 97
- Daisy Bonilla for Arkansas House District 93
- Rep. Tippi McCullough for Arkansas House District 33
- Rep. David Whitaker for Arkansas House District 85
- Lisa Hassell for Arkansas House District 68
- Rep. Denise Ennett for Arkansas House District 36
Planned Parenthood Has Reported Little Campaign Activity in Arkansas During the COVID Outbreak
Earlier this month Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes Arkansas filed its quarterly report with the Secretary of State’s office.
The report shows Planned Parenthood’s PAC did virtually no campaigning in Arkansas from April to June of this year.
That’s significant, because Planned Parenthood has pledged to spend $45 million campaigning nationwide in the 2020 elections, and the group was actively fundraising in Arkansas prior to the coronavirus outbreak.
The fact that Planned Parenthood’s PAC wasn’t active in Arkansas during the spring may mean COVID-19 has put a damper on the group’s political activities this year.
Federal Government Still Funneling Money to Planned Parenthood’s Sex Ed Programs
Last month the federal Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Population Affairs announced it was awarding $56.3 million to different groups to conduct teen pregnancy prevention programs around the country.
The announcement showed that beginning July 1, the federal government would award more than $1.1 million to Planned Parenthood of Greater New York and more than $684,000 to Planned Parenthood of the Heartland.
The funding is part of a three-year grant from the federal government.
Planned Parenthood will be able to use this money to conduct sex education programs in New York and parts of the Midwest.
We know from experience that Planned Parenthood’s sex education simply does not work.
The Obama Administration gave Planned Parenthood millions of dollars to conduct teen pregnancy prevention programs in the Pacific Northwest.
Students who went through these sex education programs actually were more likely to become pregnant or cause a pregnancy afterward.
In other words, Planned Parenthood’s sex education programs did exactly the opposite of what the federal government had wanted.
In the 1980s and 1990s, public officials in Arkansas promoted Planned Parenthood-style sex education. The programs failed to have a meaningful impact on teen pregnancy and abortion in Arkansas.
These programs focused on teaching public school students about contraceptive use.
During that time, Arkansas’ teen birth rate remained high, and teenagers were among those most likely to have an abortion.
In 1997 the state switched strategies, promoting abstinence-based sex-education in public schools. The results were nothing short of staggering.
Teen birth rates and teen abortion rates in Arkansas plummeted.
From 1997 to 2003, the teen abortion rate fell by approximately 37%, and the teen birth rate fell by 16%.
Arkansas’ abstinence education program was so successful that it garnered national attention from other states.
Despite this history, state legislators narrowly defeated a proposal to implement comprehensive sex education in Arkansas last year.
S.B. 304 by Sen. Will Bond (D – Little Rock) and Rep. LeAnne Burch (D – Monticello) would have made it possible for Planned Parenthood to worm its way into junior high and high schools across Arkansas under the auspices of teaching teen pregnancy prevention and sex education.
The bill was narrowly defeated in the House Education Committee.
All of this underscores why Arkansas does not need to mandate comprehensive sex education in public schools.
If we do, it will almost certainly let groups like Planned Parenthood into our public schools — and they may be able to use the programs to get federal taxpayer funding in the process.
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