Today's Albany Times Union op-ed, "Let teenagers learn about sex," like Sunday's editorial, "Shenendehowa fails sex ed," is about a controversy involving a Saratoga County school district and Planned Parenthood. Today's article remarks inaccurately that "some presidential candidates would like to expel Planned Parenthood from the entire country," and both it and the editorial carefully avoid mentioning the real reason people don't want Planned Parenthood involved in sex ed: its status as the country's largest provider of abortion services, and as a vigorous advocate of policies and laws supporting the continued provision of abortion on demand.
Updated Jan. 13: TheTU today returns to the fray, with another editorial bashing Shen on behalf of Planned Parenthood, and continuing to avoid the a word.
1. You do realize that abortion makes up only about 10% (if even that) of PP's total activities, right?
2. I'm amused (in that screwed up sorta way) that the states w/ the highest percentage of teen pregnancy rates are the same ones that restriction abortion but also teach abstinence only education. Most of which are found in the Deep South & Southwest.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-01-07-teenbirths_N.htm
Coincidence? I think not.
3. I'm also amused (again, in that screwed up sorta way) that the same segment who insist that anyone who gets pregnant carry their child to term no matter what are the same people who decry government intervention & advocate cuts to public assistance.
Posted by: Matthew | January 11, 2012 at 09:31 AM
The same "pro-lifers" also don't see the irony in supporting the death penalty & the Iraq War.
Posted by: Matthew | January 11, 2012 at 09:35 AM